I used to wish there was a useful term for those of us who thought American power should be used to remove psychopathic dictators.

The totalitarian, to me, is the enemy - the one that's absolute, the one that wants control over the inside of your head, not just your actions and your taxes.

The prince's official job description as king will be 'defender of the faith,' which currently means the state-financed absurdity of the Anglican Church, but he has more than once said publicly that he wants to be anointed as defender of all faiths—another indication of the amazing conceit he has developed in six decades of performing the only job allowed him by the hereditary principle: that of waiting for his mother to expire.

Religion makes intelligent people say and do wacky things, believe and affirm crazy things.

To terrify children with the image of hell, to consider women an inferior creation - is that good for the world?

What I used to say to people, when I was much more engagé myself, is that you can't be apolitical. It will come and get you. It's not that you shouldn't be neutral. It's that you won't be able to stay neutral.

How is the United States at once the most conservative and commercial AND the most revolutionary society on Earth?