A rattlesnake loose in the living room tends to end all discussion of animal rights.

The Clinton's secret is that they live in a morally discontinuous universe-events do not have consequences, and what happened 15 minutes ago has no connection to what happens now. Beware of power when it masters the secret of popular amnesia.

Human ingenuity has given centuries to the goal of ensuring that the human body might move around at an even 68 degrees all year.

Vatican II was a force that seized the mind of the Roman Catholic Church and carried it across centuries from the 13th to the 20th.

The kiss is a wordless articulation of desire whose object lies in the future, and somewhat to the south.

People travel because it teaches them things they could learn no other way.

As American productivity, once the exuberant engine of national wealth, has dipped to an embarrassingly uncompetitive low, Americans have shaken their heads: the country's old work ethic is dead.