Romantic lovers require from each other at least the facade of reason: We desire to be what romantic love makes us appear in the other's eyes. We want to imagine we are deserving of the love we inspire.

The European Union, which is not directly responsible to voters, provides an irresistible opportunity for European elites to seize power in order to impose their own vision on a newly socially regimented Europe.

Mothers are the people who love us for no good reason, and those of us who are mothers know it's the most exquisite love of all.

Whatever their defects, Christian fundamentalists have lived peacefully among us in America for several hundred years.

I regret the whole worlds that will never come into existence, the children, the grandchildren, all the human possibilities that never were and never will be.

Charter schools have a far higher proportion of teachers who are not certified.

Democratic forms of government are vulnerable to mass prejudice, the so-called tyranny of the majority.