"We have writing in which theory, so called, is allowed to set the questions and determine the answers in advance. Theory, so called, has become the latest panacea, the latest source of ready-made answers, the latest substitute for thought. Thinking is hard work and often very frustrating, since it only seems to yield provisional conclusions and to leave one in a greater muddle than ever, and so intellectuals yearn to be released from the burden, to find some secret formula that will give them definitive, comforting answers and make it unnecessary for them to go through this terrible labor of thought."
- Casey Blake & Christopher Phelps, History as Social Criticism: Conversations with Christopher Lasch, 80 Journal of American History, 1310, 1324-25 (1994).
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