Despair is the central part of the psychopathology. For the handmaiden of gossip is treachery:

— Alexander Cockburn

No foundation that I am aware of has hired ex-journalists to promote a thoroughgoing inquiry.

— Alexander Cockburn

Regulation of sexual behaviors the preferred route to wider social control.

— Alexander Cockburn

Republicans know well that a change of rhetorical pace is necessary. But efforts by their leaders to damp down the bellicosity of newly elected Tea Party types is running into the fact that the Tea Parties have only the high volume setting on their amplifiers, just like Pain. They're like a couple having a fight at a funeral; politely sotto voce, then suddenly bursting out fortissimo with their plaints and accusations.

— Alexander Cockburn

Wear the badge of environmental radicalism, and you're a citizen automatically under suspicion.

— Alexander Cockburn