Vanity Fair has but two major articles in its editorial creed: first, to believe in the progress and promise of American life,… — Frank Crowninshield Copy Share Image
The 'global warming scare' is being used as a political tool to increase government control over American lives, incomes and decision making.… — Harrison Schmitt Copy Share Image
Hughes' debut novel, At Dawn, follows a former All-American wrestler, and is there any better metaphor for contemporary American life? We're all… — Joshua Mohr Copy Share Image
By the end of the third decade of this century, all of American life - politics, international relations, our homes, our jobs,… — Joseph J. Romm Copy Share Image
“Without monstrous distortions, I was slowly learning, without lies and hypocrisy, one cannot have the idealized American life I so longed for.… — Joshua Ferris Copy Share Image
Within the world of TV land, into which American life has been reduced as well as reproduced, the phenomenon of the talk… — Patricia J. Williams Copy Share Image
The rarest of all things in American life is charm. We spend billions every year manufacturing fake charm that goes under the… — Anita Loos Copy Share Image
I think the style Plimpton popularized - the dive-in, try-it-yourself journalism - is appealing and useful for a number of reasons, not… — Kevin Roose Copy Share Image
“It was probably inevitable that the anti-intellectualism of American life would invade college campuses, but that is no reason to surrender to… — Thomas M. Nichols Copy Share Image
As a geologist, I love Earth observations, but it is ridiculous to tie this objective to a 'consensus' that humans are causing… — Harrison Schmitt Copy Share Image
“Dinner is the most like jazz of all the meals, in that jazz is part form and part improvisation. You decide what… — Deborah L. Halliday Copy Share Image
Never before has the seductive market way of life held such sway in nearly every sphere of American life. This marketing way… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
“It is spring 2007, and the block-long security lines into the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of American History (NMAH) are missing now… — Katie King Copy Share Image
I'm drawn to write about upstate New York in the way in which a dreamer might have recurring dreams. My childhood and… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
“The Hoover experiment, in the end, hardly realized the happy fantasies about the Engineer King. A very different version of this dream,… — Franklin Foer Copy Share Image
One of the grotesqueries of present-day American life is the amount of reasoning that goes into displaying the wisdom secreted in bad… — Harold Rosenberg Copy Share Image
“The country no longer felt like the innocent place it was said to be in the Eisenhower fifties. Political murder, economic injustice… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
Looking back over a decade one sees the ideal of a university become a myth, a vision, a meadow lark among the… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“For the primary goal of the American Revolution which transferred American life and introduced a new era in human history, was not… — Bernard Bailyn Copy Share Image
Illiberal left ideology has its greatest strength on campuses because campuses are one of the few places in American life where a… — Jonathan Chait Copy Share Image
We urgently need a debate about the best ways of supporting families in modern America, without blinders that prevent us from seeing… — Stephanie Coontz Copy Share Image
I think a playful critique is good for all of us, and that's basically how I see satire functioning. But I'm not… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
One of the manifestations of depression for me is that I lose my will. And I thereby lose my ability to focus.… — Rachel Maddow Copy Share Image
Media is so weird; everything is so accessible now. It used to be this thing where, if you did something on 'This… — Mike Birbiglia Copy Share Image
