Postmodernism Is Among Other Things A Sick

The Frontier Between Public And Private Shifts From Time To Time And Culture To Culture.

Deconstruction Insists Not That Truth Is Illusory But That It Is Institutional.

All Propaganda Or Popularization Involves A Putting Of The Complex Into The Simple, But Such A Move Is Instantly Deconstructive. For If The Complex Can Be Put Into The Simple, Then It Cannot Be As Complex As It Seemed In The First Place; And If The Simple Can Be An Adequate Medium Of Such Complexity, Then It Cannot After All Be As Simple As All That.

If There Are Indeed Any Iron Laws Of History, One Of Them Is Surely That In Any Major Crisis Of The Capitalist System, A Sector Of The Liberal Middle Class Will Shift To The Left, And Then Shift Smartly Back Again Once The Crisis Has Blown Over.

The Humanities Should Constitute The Core Of Any University Worth The Name.