The literary culture, if you examine it, the high literary culture is that which preserves the government and you know it's really the talk for those who have.
There's a certain kind of cultural energy pursued by the gatekeepers of elite discourse, who want to argue that Americans fundamentally agree with each other, and that's the health of the nation.
Most of Washington punditry […] is private letters, written to other pundits, appearing in public space.
It's kind of the Washington, D.C., chattering class. They kind of talk amongst themselves.
U.S. academics and Upper East Side New Yorkers like to think of the United Nations as a place where foreign ambassadors have intellectual discussions about power and world peace.
Postmodernism is an academic theory, originating in academia with an academic elite, not in the world of women and men, where feminist theory is rooted.
The belief that all wealth comes from stealing is popular in prisons and at Harvard.
Choice, like behavior and performance, is often circumvented by the vocabulary of the anointed.
I think the reporter or journalist is well served by having a responsibility to the powerless, to use a much-abused cliché. The voice of the powerless is in some danger of not being heard in the elite discourses we now have in the mainstream media.
