Promises To Get Beyond Partisanship Are The

As You Watch The World Crumble, Try Taking Your Armageddon With This Sprinkling Of Irony: Over The Last Three Decades, Business Has Got Virtually Everything It Wanted, And Its Doomsday Scenario From The 1970s Has Come True Because Of It.

In America, We No Longer Have An Institutionalized, Organized Way Of Calling Business To Task - Of Taking Them To Account For What They've Done - And This Is Especially True In The Cultural Realm.

In The Last James Bond Movie, The Villain Was A Culture Captain, A Tycoon Of Culture, A Murdoch Figure. It's Not As If People Don't Know What Is Going On.

It Is Always A Disappointment To Turn From Forthright Consideration Of Some Subject - Whether From The Left Or The Right, A Poet Or A Plumber - To The Beltway Version, In Which The Only Aspects Of The Issue That Matter Are The Effects It Will Have On The Fortunes Of The Two Parties And The Various Men In Power.

Government Is, By Its Very Nature, A Destroyer Of Liberties; The Obama Administration, Specifically, Is Promising To Interfere With The Economy And The Health Care System So Profoundly That Washington Will Soon Have Us All In Chains.