Science may have come a long way, but as far as religion is concerned, we are first cousins to the !Kung tribesmen of the Kalahari Desert. Except for the garments, their deep religious trances might just as well be happening at a revival meeting or in the congregation of a fundamentalist TV preacher.... As we move further from the life of ignorance and superstition in which religion has its roots, we seem to need it more and more.... Why has religion become a force just when we'd have thought it would be losing ground to secularism?

Praising the Lord and passing the ammunition are mutually exclusive ideas.

Presenting statues of honor to reporters for covering an earthquake is like presenting a first prize to a doctor for performing surgery.

I realize what you can do when you scare the population and how media contributes to that.

December 25th has become guilt and obligation.

At first, I thoroughly enjoyed being famous.

To a journalist, good news is often not news at all.