Women are in league with each other, a secret conspiracy of hearts and pheromones

The trauma of the Sixties persuaded me that my generation's egalitarianism was a sentimental error. I now see the hierarchical as both beautiful and necessary. Efficiency liberates; egalitarianism tangles, delays, blocks, deadens.

Madonna's great instinctive intelligence was evident to me from her earliest videos.

Except for naval and air exercises, our military should be stationed on American soil, where service men and women can lead normal lives in close proximity to family and friends.

As a major contemporary composer, Madonna should not let the eye dictate to the ear.

When I was a child, my father taught me to put up my fists like a boy and to be prepared to defend myself at all times.

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.