I believe that history has shape, order, and meaning; that exceptional men, as much as economic forces, produce change; and that passe abstractions like beauty, nobility, and greatness have a shifting but continuing validity.

Women are being told "you are future leaders." Meanwhile, we are more than our jobs. One reason Sex and the City was such an enormous hit is that it expressed something that feminism won't admit: we don't know what we want. We don't know if we want children or not.

Young people today are flooded with disconnected images but lack a sympathetic instrument to analyze them as well as a historical frame of reference in which to situate them. I am reminded of an unnerving scene in Stanley Kubrick's epic film, 2001: A Space Odyssey, where an astronaut, his air hose cut by the master computer gone amok, spins helplessly off into space.

The more women succeed and rise up into positions of power, the more remote they become from actual masculine energy.

Social justice and compassion are compatible with an intelligent respect for private enterprise and law and order.

Music never dies. Do we really need another Madonna tour? Does she have to compete with women performers 25 years her junior?

American high schools have physically imprisoned young people, stripped them of civil liberties and fed them a diet of p.c. pap.