57 Quotes by Bruce Jackson

We entered the 20th century trying to deal with three ideas purporting to define or describe or explain three spheres of action, development and conflict: Darwin on the natural world, Freud on the internal world, Marx on the economic world.

Which suggests something about media and war: it's not just that events happen and the media documents and presents them. There is a third element: what the public is ready to accept, what the public wants to know.

All too often, academic departments defend their territory with the passion of cornered animals, though with far less justification.

America has the longest prison sentences in the West, yet the only condition long sentences demonstrably cure is heterosexuality.

Both of our wars in Iraq were, on American television, largely bloodless.

The media is not at all homogeneous in the way it tells us about war.

The web continues to be a source of important photographs you see nowhere else.

When friends and lovers die and your world gets quieter; that's when the silence comes closer; that's when next isn't the least bit theoretical or abstract.

I'm a schoolteacher and a writer. So that's what I do.