Evolutionary biology is crazy because sometimes it seems anybody can draw any conclusion they want.

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

In the US, the 50s and 60s marked the documentary's golden age, especially at CBS, where pioneering televison journalist Edward R Murrow, immortalised in George Clooney's Good Night, and Good Luck, produced such landmark investigations as the CBS Reports programme Hunger in America.

I'm a big believer in debate and difference of opinion.

To find freedom and happiness in each others' arms, or you know, inside their own bodies and minds. That is a very empowering thing in a society that's trying to control us all the time.

The Victorian woman became her ovaries, as today's woman has become her "beauty.

After we were hit on September 11 2001, we were in a state of national shock. Less than six weeks later, on October 26 2001, the USA Patriot Act was passed by a Congress that had little chance to debate it; many said that they scarcely had time to read it.