Spokespeople sell women the Iron Maiden and name her "Health": if public discourse were really concerned with women's health, it would turn angrily upon this aspect of the beauty myth.

Historically, when a leader has deployed his own military against civilians, it's never been good. There's never been a time where it's ended well.

Vogue began to focus on the body as much as on the clothes, in part because there was little they could dictate with the anarchic styles...In a stunning move, an entire replacement culture was developed by naming a 'problem' where it had scarcely existed before, centering it on the women's natural state, and elevating it to the existential female dilemma...The number of diet-related articles rose 70 percent from 1968 to 1972...The lucrative 'transfer of guilt' was resurrected just in time.

What editors are obliged to appear to say that men want from women is actually what their advertisers want from women.

If people are taking my book seriously and organizing, getting into office, caring about the constitution, and not waiting for someone else to lead them, I think, God bless them. All of us should be doing that. The left should be doing that.

When a leader has deployed a private army, that is one definition of a police state. Another is when the president, or a leader, has his own treasury.

From a constitutional point of view George W. Bush passing through the Patriot Act is no worse than Obama renewing it.