UNDERLYING ASSUMPTIONS

Sleaze, Dreck, Distraction and Yellow Journalism

These are the ills the teeming Press supplies, The pois’nous springs from learning’s fountain rise; Not there the wise alone

Over the last decade, the primary sensation of being a young conservative can only be described as a sinking feeling

In five minutes he had them tossing Indian clubs at each other, precise as a metronome. Watching them reminded Vivy

There is often a critique within contemporary spirituality of consumerism, seeking happiness in things, and of an unthinking life of

Flicker, flicker goes the screen No longer are there sights unseen War and cheerful commercial breaks Mental dislocation makes Tears

Even when I know it’s irrational, I still find myself riding a bullet train of worry all the way to

Upon this Empire, as upon that of Rome, calamity has at last fallen. A host of intellectual barbarians has burst

I many times thought peace had come When peace was far away, As wrecked men deem they sight the land

“It is said, that twenty-four millions ought to prevail over two hundred thousand. True; if the constitution of a kingdom

“I have been thinking,” said Arthur, “about Might and Right. I don’t think things ought to be done because you