Feminists have not tried to "destroy the family". We just thought the family was such a good idea that men might want to get involved in it too.

At issue is not only knowledge of the world but our survival as individuals and as a species. All the basic technologies ever invented by humans to feed and protect themselves depend on a relentless commitment to hard-nosed empiricism: you cannot assume that your arrowheads will pierce the hide of a bison or that your raft will float just because the omens are propitious and you have been given supernatural reassurance that they will. You have to be sure.

We need to brace ourselves for a struggle against terrifying obstacles...bot h of our own making and imposed by the natural world. And the first step is to recover from the mass delusion that is positive thinking.

The 'working poor,' as they are approvingly termed, are in fact the major philanthropists of our society.

But our culture is in truly bad shape if we have come to define respecting something as the failure to set it on fire.

To be homeless in America is to live like a fugitive. The destitute are our own native-born "illegals."

Cheerfulness, up to and including delusion and false hope, has a recognized place in medicine.