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

Heaven help the American-born boy with a talent for ballet.

Bisexuality is our best hope of escape from the animosities and false polarities of the current sex wars.

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

Madonna remains the most visible performer on the planet, as well as one of the wealthiest, but would anyone seriously say that artistic self-development is her primary motivating principle? She is too busy with Kabbalah, fashion merchandising, adoption melodramas, the gym, and ill-starred horseback riding to study art.

Science is a method of logical analysis of nature's operations. It has lessened human anxiety about the cosmos by demonstrating the materiality of nature's forces, and their frequent predictability.

They do not understand the fragility of civilization and the constant nearness of savage nature.