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Anticipating that most poetry will be worse than carrying heavy luggage through O'Hare Airport, the public, to its loss, reads very little of it.
Except for politics, no business is scrutinized more exhaustively than journalism.
It was Queen Elizabeth who made me a foreign correspondent.
Live by publicity, you'll probably die by publicity.
The American press has the blues. Too many authorities have assured it that its days are numbered, too many good newspapers are in ruins.
In an age when the fashion is to be in love with yourself, confessing to be in love with somebody else is an admission of unfaithfulness to one's... →
People who say you're just as old as you feel are all wrong, fortunately.
Serious journalism need not be solemn.
American foreign policy had still not recovered from its victory over communism when George W. Bush and Condoleezza Rice took over at the White House... →
Strategic thinkers were naturally rattled to find this outsider fooling around with their work. They had been thinking strategically when Reagan was... →
What the New Yorker calls home would seem like a couple of closets to most Americans, yet he manages not only to live there but also to grow trees... →