It is a curious fact that the word 'essayist' showed up in English before it existed in French.
John Jeremiah Sullivan
There's a half-conscious state you enter when you're actually generating prose, and you are simply a better writer in that place. In fact... →
President Obama has outsourced a major portion of the U.S. space program to the Russians. That's national policy. Taxpayer money. So let's... →
John Sununu
The financial crisis of 2008 was not caused by investment banks betting against the housing market in 2007. It was caused by the fact that too few... →
James Surowiecki
The fact that industries wax and wane is a reality of any economic system that wants to remain dynamic and responsive to people's changing tastes.
Of course, politicians always say they're just describing their opponents' positions, even if they are in fact offering absurd caricatures... →
The fact is, I can vote for anybody; independents, Republicans, Democrats. But I'm a registered Democrat in the District of Columbia.
Ron Suskind
The fact is, most journalists I know are not particularly political. They move around a lot.
The fact is that in a way, journalists become a kind of default in the system when you don't have substantive two-party back-and-forth inside of... →
I have always enjoyed explaining physics. In fact it's more than just enjoyment: I need to explain physics.
Leonard Susskind