Steadiness of faith, was, in the long run, as illuminating and essential as sophistication of thought.

We chose the most interesting image available to us to illustrate the theme of the cover, which is what we always try to do. We apply the same test to photographs of any public figure, male or female: does the image convey what we are saying? That is a gender-neutral standard.

America has long raised political and cultural cognitive dissonance to an art form. We are capable of living with enormous inequality and injustice while convincing ourselves that we are in fact moving toward what Churchill called the "broad, sun-lit uplands."

Steadiness of faith, was, in the long run, as illuminating and essential as sophistication of thought.

The traditional religious right's failure to restore public-school prayer or pass an antiabortion constitutional amendment has likely helped fuel the spread of the more extreme dominionist school.

[T]o argue that something is so because it is in the Bible is more than intellectually bankrupt.

The government invented the Internet.