There is a paranoid streak in American life. Radio talk show hosts tend to foment that paranoid streak in American life.

I have always considered "Pascal's Wager" a questionable bet to place. Any God worth "believing in" would surely prefer an honest agnostic to a calculating hypocrite.

When you discriminate against anyone, you discriminate against everyone. It's a display of terrible intolerance.

The very concept of an Iranian university is an oxymoron. There are no free and open places of learning in that repressive theocracy. Dissenters are not given tenure; they are murdered, after first being tortured. Blasphemy, which is broadly defined, is punished. Gays are not only excluded from Iranian universities, but are imprisoned and killed.

Great research universities must insist on independence from government and on the exercise of academic freedom.

I think there would be less torture with a warrant requirement than without one.

A criminal trial is never about seeking justice for the victim. If it were, there could be only one verdict: guilty.