Henry Kissinger should have the door shut in his face by every decent person and should be shamed, ostracized and excluded.

It's often a bad sign when people defend themselves against charges which haven't been made.

What they [the 9/11 attackers] abominate about 'the west', to put it in a phrase, is not what western liberals don't like and can't defend about their own system, but what they do like about it and must defend: its emancipated women, its scientific inquiry, its separation of religion from the state.

The essence of tyranny is not iron law. It is capricious law.

Religion, it is true, still possesses the huge if cumbersome and unwieldy advantage of having come first.

I've been writing a lot about a new form of Russian imperialism. Actually, Russian Orthodox imperialism. It's very little remarked that the cement, the political, ideological cement of the Russian regime now, communism having collapsed and imploded, is increasingly a confessional one.

No school of philosophy has ever solved this question of whether being determines consciousness or the other way around. It may be a false antithesis.