In television, the 60-minute series, 'The Wire' and 'Mad Men' and so on, the writer is the primary creative artist.

In India, as elsewhere in our darkening world, religion is the poison in the blood. Where religion intervenes, mere innocence is no excuse. Yet we go on skating around this issue, speaking of religion in the fashionable language of 'respect.' What is there to respect in any of this, or in any of the crimes now being committed almost daily around the world in religion's dreaded name?

British society has never been cleansed of the filth of imperialism.

The Koran was revealed at a time of great change in the Arab world, the seventh-century shift from a matriarchal nomadic culture to an urban patriarchal system.

Fundamentalism isn't about religion, it's about power.

Very often in free speech cases you find yourself defending material that you personally detest, because of course it's no trick to defend the free speech of people you either agree with or who don't particularly upset you. It's when people really upset you that you discover if you believe in free speech or not.

One of the characteristics of mudslinging is that mud sticks if it's thrown with enough force for long enough.