We are a species that must try to impose and find systems - systems of thought, ways of organizing and categorizing reality.

If you're uncertain when life begins, why not give the unborn the benefit of the doubt and oppose abortion?

By this point, it was clear she wasn't interested in continuing the relationship. What publication on earth would continue a relationship with a writer who would refuse to discuss her work with her editors? What publication would continue to publish a writer who attacked it on TV? What publication would continue to publish a writer who lied about it - on TV and to a Washington Post reporter? ... It's true: Ann is fearless, in person and in her writing. But fearlessness isn't an excuse for crappy writing or crappier behavior.

Are you a producer or a looter? If diversity were always and everywhere good we would be clamoring for more midgets in the NBA.

Cultures grow on the vine of tradition.

I'd like to know why sociologists can't decide whether movie sex and violence has any effect on children, but there's a universal consensus that even a glimpse of a Camel will force children to become lifelong smokers.

Americans are very smart about the things they care about, and ignorant about the things they don't.