The publishing of a book is a worldwide event. The attempt to suppress a book is a worldwide event.

Mo Yan is the Chinese equivalent of the Soviet Russian apparatchik writer Mikhail Sholokhov: a patsy of the regime.

I do not need the idea of God to explain the world I live in.

Children like being a little scared, but they don't want to be disturbed.

The First Amendment defends all forms of speech including hate speech, which is why groups like Ku Klux Klan are allowed to utter their poisonous remarks.

Our lives are not what we deserve; they are, let us agree, in many ways deficient.

I remember when I was young, many cities in the Muslim world were cosmopolitan cities with a lot of culture.