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When 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer' premiered on the WB Network in 1996, American culture was in trouble. Americans were bowling alone, pursuing individual interests to the detriment of the communal good. Business leaders were celebrating creativity and ...

Virginia Postrel

I started collecting aerial photographs of Native American and South Pacific architecture; only the African ones were fractal. And if you think about it, all these different societies have different geometric design themes that they use. So Native Am...

Ron Eglash

Someone once said that every man is trying to live up to his father's expectations or make up for their father's mistakes....

The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream

Economy, like grammar, is a very hard and tiresome study, after we are twenty years old.

The American Frugal Housewife: Dedicated to Those Who Are Not Ashamed of Economy

I didn't flee a dictator or swim an ocean to be an American like some do. I just thought long and hard about it.

American on Purpose: The Improbable Adventures of an Unlikely Patriot

And, in the end, I knew there was nothing better in life than keeping the head and the heart up—and when you cannot see the shoreline, always putting one hand, one word, in front of the other.

The American Storybag

This book is dedicated to the people of America--strong, outspoken, intense in their convictions, sometimes wrong-headed but always generous and brave, with a passion for justice no nation has ever matched.

A History of the American People

This is the fast lane, folks...and some of us like it here.

Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the Final Days of the American Century

On some days you get what you want, and on others, you get what you need.

Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the Final Days of the American Century

Our view of reality is only a view, not reality itself.

The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures

Harry had worked his way through the American Dream and come to the conclusion that is was composed of a good lunch and a deep red wine that could soar.

Let the Great World Spin

A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.

Student's Encyclopedia of American Literary Characters Set

If a family is an expression of continuity through biology, a city is an expression of continuity through will amd imagination — through mental choices making artifice, not through physical reproduction.

Take Time for Paradise: Americans and Their Games

Anarchism? You bet your sweet betsy. The only cure for the ills of democracy is more democracy. Much more.

Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast

But it is a writer's duty to write and speak and record the truth, always the truth, no matter whom may be offended.

Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast

Ah yes, the head is full of books. The hard part is to force them down through the bloodstream and out through the fingers.

Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast

Hard times are a-coming, and people without useful, practical skills are going to suffer. Or suffer most.

Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast

In the land of bleating sheep and braying jackasses, one brave and honest man is bound to create a scandal.

Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast

As for writing, that's a cruel hard business. Unless you're very lucky it'll break your heart.

Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast

What is the essence of the art of writing? Part One: Have something to say. Part Two: Say it well.

Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast

What are American dry-goods? asked the duchess, raising her large hands in wonder and accentuating the verb. American novels, answered Lord Henry.

The Picture of Dorian Gray and Other Writings