"Leon Wieseltier" is an American writer, critic, amateur philosopher and magazine editor. From 1983 to 2014, he was the literary editor of The New Republic. He is currently a contributing editor and critic at The Atlantic.

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No great deed, private or public, had ever been undertaken in a bliss of certainty.

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Why should I admire somebody for his ability to manipulate me? In other realms of life, this talent is known as demagoguery.

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Incorruptibility by money is the old story, ... Now it's incorruptibility by media.

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For all its vanity about its own courage, the film is afraid of itself. It is soaked in the sweat of its idea of even-handedness. The death of innocents was an Israeli mistake but a Palestinian objective.

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The effort was to summon to the bosoms of her personnel the sort of man that Barrows likes to call "nice." Nice meant rich.

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