'The End of America' details the 10 steps that would-be dictators always take in seeking to close an open society; it argued that the Bush administration had been advancing each one.

I don't think we've got the concept in the West that male desire degrades men. Or that if men become sexually active, they become debased in some way, or slutty. Or lose status.

Our society does reward beauty on the outside over health on the inside. Women must not be blamed for choosing short-term beauty "fixes" that harm our long-term health, since our life spans are inverted under the beauty myth, and there is no great social or economic incentive for women to live a long time.

The woman wins who calls herself beautiful, and challenges the world to change to fit her vision.

I don't want people to be suicidal. I want them to be energized and angry.

A cultural fixation on female thinness is not an obsession about female beauty but an obsession about female obedience.

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.