Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotes by Alexander Claud Cockburn (Irish American Journalist)

Alexander Claud Cockburn (1941–2012) was an Irish American journalist. A leftist, he condemned the indignations of the right and reprimanded the American liberal establishment when he thought it was timid.

Born in Ardgay, Scotland, Cockburn grew up in Ireland. He studied English language and literature at Keble College, Oxford, graduating in 1963. He freelanced for The Times Literary Supplement, New Left Review, and New Statesman in London before moving to New York City in the early 1970s.

Cockburn penned acerbic, provocative columns on cultural and political topics for a variety of publications, notably the left-leaning journals Village Voice (1973–84) and The Nation (1984–2012,) the conservative Wall Street Journal (1980–90,) and the self-described “radical” online newsletter CounterPunch (1994–2012,) which he co-edited.

Cockburn was generally a left-wing journalist, but his positions were contentious and sometimes changeable. For instance, he publicly denied human contributions to global warming and expressed concerns about legalized abortion. He was a fierce critic of Israeli policies in the Middle East. In 1982, he was suspended from his job at the Village Voice for accepting a grant from a pro-Arab foundation, which the editors considered a conflict of interest.

Cockburn published several books, including Corruptions of Empire: Life Studies and the Reagan Era (1987,) The Golden Age Is in Us: Journeys and Encounters (1995,) Whiteout: The CIA, Drugs and the Press (1998,) and A Colossal Wreck: A Road Trip through Political Scandal, Corruption and American Culture (2011.)

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The travel writer seeks the world we have lost—the lost valleys of the imagination.
Alexander Claud Cockburn
Topics: Travel, Tourism

There is never finality in the display terminal’s screen, but an irresponsible whimsicality, as words, sentences, and paragraphs are negated at the touch of a key. The significance of the past, as expressed in the manuscript by a deleted word or an inserted correction, is annulled in idle gusts of electronic massacre.
Alexander Claud Cockburn
Topics: Computers

A “just war” is hospitable to every self-deception on the part of those waging it, none more than the certainty of virtue, under whose shelter every abomination can be committed with a clear conscience.
Alexander Claud Cockburn
Topics: War

A childish soul not inoculated with compulsory prayer is a soul open to any religious infection.
Alexander Claud Cockburn
Topics: Prayer

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