The last western society to worship female powers was Minoan Crete. And significantly, that fell and did not rise again.

Despite crime's omnipresence, things work in society, because biology compels it. Order eventually restores itself, by psychic equilibrium.

Criticism at its best is re-creative, not spirit-killing.

Sotomayor's vainglorious lecture bromide about herself as 'a wise Latina' trumping white men is a vulgar embarrassment - a vestige of the bad old days of male-bashing feminism.

Art is something out of the ordinary commenting on the ordinary.

Very gifted people may be sociopathic in varying degrees.

The male orientation of classical Athens was inseparable from its genius. Athens became great not despite but because of its misogyny.