Human behavior is timeless.

The open frontier, the hardships of homesteading from scratch, the wealth of natural resources, the whole vast challenge of a continent waiting to be exploited, combined to produce a prevailing materialism and an American drive bent as much, if not more, on money, property, and power than was true of the Old World from which we had fled.

Arguments can always be found to turn desire into policy.

The costliest myth of our time has been the myth of the Communist monolith.

Policy is formed by preconceptions, by long implanted biases. When information is relayed to policy-makers, they respond in terms of what is already inside their heads and consequently make policy less to fit the facts than to fit the notions and intentions formed out of the mental baggage that has accumulated in their minds since childhood.

Theology being the work of males, original sin was traced to the female.

The reality of a question is inevitably more complicated than we would like to suppose.