History provides a sense of where we've been and lessons that can be taken forward.

Iraqis have held elections and have recently put together their government, all encouraging developments.

I have a long-term interest in the humanities.

If you read literature, you put yourself in somebody else's shoes. You learn from great figures in literature.

Drawing on President Bush's reform plan, which would allow citizens to transfer part of their Social Security contributions into personal accounts, an alteration of the current system is needed to make necessary change.

The arts and humanities are vastly more important in troubled times.

There are words bandied about that are being misused - words like 'socialism,' words like 'communism,' words like 'fascism.