Why Should We Subsidize Intellectual Curiosity?

I Think The Great Thing About Grandparents Is Seeing Another Home, Realising That People You Love Can Have Different Priorities, Different Diversions, Different Opinions And Lead Quite Different Lives From The Ones You See Every Day, And That Is Immensely Valuable.

If You Read The 'daily Mail,' You Would Imagine That The British Middle Classes Lead Lives Of Unremitting Misery.

Curiously, It Is Hard Not To Be A Little Optimistic About The Future For Zimbabwe (as Nobody At All Calls It Yet, Except In Political Speeches). The Fear Is Not That There Will Be Mass Slaughter Of The Whites, Followed By Their Flight To South Africa And The Collapse Of The Economy, But That The Need To Retain White Confidence May Mean That The Blacks Are Badly Disappointed.

Disney World Has Acquired By Now Something Of The Air Of A National Shrine. American Parents Who Don't Take Their Children There Sense Obscurely That They Have Failed In Some Fundamental Way, Like Muslims Who Never Made It To Mecca.

Reagan Was A Flesh And Blood Version Of Any Other Mute National Emblem, Say The Statue Of Liberty. Everyone Knows What She Represents, But No One Would Dream Of Asking Her Opinion.