Mark Poster

So begins a question which has of late become more and more urgent: what is the relation of aesthetics to politics?

Today the family is being attacked and defended with equal vehemence.

Terrorism is in good part an effective government propaganda; it serves to deflect attention from governmental abuse toward a mostly imagined, highly dangerous outside enemy.

A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs.

Biodiversity starts in the distant past and it points toward the future.

Exeter was, I suspect, more crucial in my life than in the lives of most members of my class, and conceivably, than in the lives of almost anyone else who ever attended the school.