Today, the ideal male is the gay man and the ideal female is the worker female, the woman who can work in a coal mine just like all the other men.

There is no true expertise in the humanities without knowing all of the humanities. Art is a vast, ancient interconnected web-work, a fabricated tradition. Over-concentration on any one point is a distortion.

Our presence in Afghanistan is not worth the price of any more American lives or treasure.

Poetry is the way into a spiritual vision of society and the universe.

Every reading is partial, but that does not absolve us from the quest for meaning, which defines us as a species.

The moment is ripe for an experienced businessman to talk practical, prudent economics to the electorate - which is why Mitt Romney's political fortunes are steadily being resurrected from the grave.

Minerva save us from the cloying syrup of coercive compassion!