The attempt to redefine the family as a purely voluntary arrangement grows out of the modern delusion that people can keep all their options open all the time.

I despise the cowardly clinging to life, purely for the sake of life, that seems so deeply ingrained in the American temperament.

The work of art is a scream of freedom.

[Reinhold] Niebuhr endorsed G.K.Chesterton’s observation that tolerance is the attitude of those who do not believe in anything.

Liberals subscribe to the new flexible, pluralistic definition of the family; their defense of families carries no conviction.

The proper reply to right wing religiosity is not to insist that politics and religion don't mix. This is the stock response of the left.

The news appeals to the same jaded appetite that makes a child tire of a toy as soon as it becomes familiar and demand a new one in its place.