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.

I did not imagine that pregnant women were 'naturally' any more sensitive or exalted than people in any other condition; only it seemed as if - perhaps because we are in such a twilight state, a melting down and reconstituting of the self - there was more opportunity to hear strains from what must be the other side, the moral music of the sphere.

A Mother who radiates self-love and self-acceptance actually VACCINATES her daughter against low self-esteem.

My job is to notice echoes and notice resonances. Scientists are not supposed to do the same thing that cultural critics do.

Peaceful, lawful protest - if it is effective - IS innately disruptive of “business as usual.” That is WHY it is effective.

The First Amendment was designed to allow for disruption of business as usual. It is not a quiet and subdued amendment or right.

In a fascist shift, reporters start to face more and more harassment, and they have to be more and more courageous simply in order to do their jobs.