Whenever people can access deities directly without the intervention of a religious hierarchy, they don't need to have hierarchy so much.

There is the fear, common to all English-only speakers, that the chief purpose of foreign languages is to make fun of us. Otherwise, you know, why not just come out and say it?

The failure to think positively can weigh on a cancer patient like a second disease.

war is, in some not yet entirely defined sense, a self-replicating pattern of behavior, possessed of a dynamism not unlike that of living things.

There's more pressure on women to be chirpy and perky.

Of all the nasty outcomes predicted for women's liberation... none was more alarming, from a feminist point of view, than the suggestion that women would eventually become just like men.

Both chronic, long-term poverty and downward mobility from the middle class are in the same category of things that America likes not to think about.