There is no English surname, however ancient and dignified, that cannot instantly be improved by the prefix ‘Spanker’.

A wide and vague impression exists that so-called Eastern religion is more contemplative, innocuous, and humane than the proselytizing monotheisms of the West. Don't believe a word of this: try asking the children of Indochina who were dumped by their parents for inherited deformities that were attributed to sins in a previous 'life.

In modern Greek history, there is a close relationship between national humiliation and political radicalization.

It is a pity that...the majority of feminists and their allies have stuck to the dead ground of "Me Decade" possessive individualism, an ideology that has more in common than it admits with the prehistoric right, which it claims to oppose but has in fact encouraged.

One of the many dreadful aspects of the Kennedy 'legacy' is the now-unbreakable grip of celebrity politics, image-doctoring, stage management, and "torch-passing" rhetoric in general.

What better way for a ruling class to claim and hold power than to pose as the defenders of the nation.

Do not imagine that you can escape judgment if you rob people with a false prospectus rather than with a knife.