Spending two years on my uncle's ranch in Montana as a young man gave me the wisdom and the thrust to do westerns.
. . . I realized with a growing and startling sense of clarity that the seminary was educating and training me for a world that no longer existed. Moreover, the posture of this particular brand of Christianity toward the surrounding culture was one o...
What we mean when we say that something is "cultural" is that it is roughly similar to what we find in other members of the particular group we are considering, and unlike what we would find in members of a contrast group. This is why it is confusing...
Escapism sold books, to be sure, but not nearly as many as were sold by exposing America’s flaws and making the average American reader (and book club member) look closely at his or her most cherished social assumptions. Americans might not be eage...
Cultural survival is not about preservation, sequestering indigenous peoples in enclaves like some sort of zoological specimens. Change itself does note destroy a culture. All societies are constantly evolving. Indeed a culture survives when it has e...
Dominator culture teaches all of us that the core of our identity is defined by the will to dominate and control others. We are taught that this will to dominate is more biologically hardwired in males than in females. In actuality, dominator culture...
I say fuck marriage, but we can do it for these westerners and explain it to the gods later.
Opera, next to Gothic architecture, is one of the strangest inventions of Western man. It could not have been foreseen by any logical process.
In brief, Western democracy, as other political models, is not exportable to all regions of the world.
The principle of responsibility and collective sanctions is incompatible with the Western concept of justice.
I know I am always pumped, as an audience member, to go and see a Western.
As the publisher of the 'Tory,' I strive to defend the pillars of Western civilization against the distractions of diversity.
The final story, the final chapter of western man, I believe, lies in Los Angeles.
We're not afraid of sanctions. We're not afraid of military invasion. What frightens us is the invasion of western immorality.
The Westerns I like aren't really comedies. I'm drawn to the scope of them and the land as a central character.
I've done a little bit of everything now, but I would like to do a Western because I've never done that.
The western mantra is that Israel seeks negotiations without preconditions, while the Palestinians refuse. The opposite is more accurate.
Best Buy is just too Western! They do not stock enough Chinese brands, and Chinese people do not want to buy foreign brands.
I come from a wonderful family. My mother was a pianist and my father was a salesman. They were very middle-class, very middle-Western.
Everything around a writer, or musician in the record business, probably everything in all the United States or in all of western civilization, is about competition.
The cult of the individual is killing us. I think Twitter signals the death of western civilisation, but people have been saying that since Demosthenes.
