“Part of the richness of the home culture I come from and what makes it fascinating...

"All around us we see signs of this confusion. Americans are often called a "materialistic" people...

"In a brief biography, a writer needs to set himself a limited question. I chose this...

"Narcissism? Culture in decline? It's the whole world. Venice was narcissistic, full of iconic buildings, and...

"I was in Baghdad as a volunteer surgeon, but operating was difficult. The city’s hospitals had...

"It seems to have been universal throughout North America. In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, abductions...

"The book takes a strongly antistatist position, and advances views that used to be common among...

"I am against all organizations with the word “World” in their names. As for free trade,...

"The formula ‘Day X’ in our documents meant the beginning of a large-scale war against the...

"American culture is swamped with dizzying media images, which have become a primary form of communication....