I Don't Have Any Shame.

We Must Express The View, Based On Our Empirical Observations, That A Substantial Number Of Journalists Are Ignorant, Lazy, Opinionated, And Intellectually Dishonest. The Profession Is Heavily Cluttered With Aged Hacks Toiling Through A Miasma Of Mounting Decrepitude And Often Alcoholism, And Even More So With Arrogant And Abrasive Youngsters Who Substitute 'commitment' For Insight. The Product Of Their Impassioned Intervention In Public Affairs Is More Often Confusion Than Lucidity.

I Don't Have Any Shame.

A Quest For Knowledge Is Not A War With Faith; Spirituality Is Not Usually An Infelicitous Amalgam Of Superstition And Philistinism; And Moral Relativism, Taken Outside Midfield, Leads Inexorably Both To Heresy And To Secular Wickedness, Which Are Often Identical.

The Facts Of Watergate Have Been Wildly Exaggerated.

I Always Keep A Firewall Between My Own Travails And My Perception Of Public-policy Issues; Otherwise I Would Retain No Credibility As A Commentator.