To ask women to become unnaturally thin is to ask them to relinquish their sexuality.

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.

Western women have been controlled by ideals and stereotypes as much as by material constraints.

I'll go anywhere to talk about the Constitution. I believe in trans-partisan organizing around these issues.

When I went on Fox News people asked me why I was going on those shows. Are you kidding? You have to go, especially to people you don't agree with.

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

Since Madonna is positioned as always "cooler than thou", we all are primed for schadenfreude if something in her fabulous life goes amiss.