We should teach general ethics to both men and women, but sexual relationships themselves must not be policed. Sex, like the city streets, would be risk-free only in totalitarian regimes.

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.

Old school feminism, coveting social power, is blind to woman's cosmic sexual power.

The plastic surgery issue is really looming because girls in the U.S. are getting it in their teens.

Pregnancy demonstrates the deterministic character of woman's sexuality.

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

Obama's folksy come-on is as bad as Madonna's faux British - and both are in need of fresh inspiration.