Used to be, conservatives revered the Average American, that Norman Rockwell oil painting of diner food, humble faith, honest toil, and Capraesque virtue. – James Wolcott
The lies the government and media tell are amplifications of the lies we tell ourselves. To stop being conned, stop conning yourself. – James Wolcott
Book-jacket design may become a lost art, like album-cover design, without which late-20th-century iconography would have been pauperized. – James Wolcott
As we divest ourselves of once familiar physical objects – digitize and dematerialize – we approach a Star Trek future in which everything can be accessed from the fourth dimension with a few clicks or terse audibles. – James Wolcott