To abjure the notion of the truly human is to abjure the attempt to divinize the self as a replacement for a divinized world.

Truth [is] what is better for us to believe.

What counts as rational argumentation is as historically determined and as context-dependent, as what counts as good French.

I illustrate with a quotation from the atheist philosopher Richard Rorty, who died recently and is, I suspect, now having a lengthy conversation with his maker. Rorty argued that secular professors ought “to arrange things so that students who enter as bigoted, homophobic religious fundamentalists will leave college with views more like our own.

If I had to lay bets, my bet would be that everything is going to go to hell, but, you know, what else have we got except hope?

Every government, left or right, always engages in moral crusades. What else are they supposed to do? Especially when they make war; any war has to be a moral crusade.

Truth is a property of sentences, since sentences are dependent for their existence upon vocabularies, and since vocabularies are made by human beings, so are truths.