How do you defeat terrorism? Don’t be terrorized.

I admit it: above all things, I fear absurdity.

The whole story of migration and what that has done in interconnecting the planet is obviously something I've written about a lot.

The Christian Coalition is still about Christianity, even if it's an idea of Christianity that many Christians might not go along with.

Islam is unusual in that it's the only one of the great world religions which was born inside recorded history. That there's an enormous amount of factual historical record about the life of a prophet and about social conditions in Arabia at that time. So it's possible to look at the origin of Islam in a scholarly way.

In today's US, it's possible for almost anyone - women, gays, African-Americans, Jews - to run for, and be elected to, high office.

As I look back, I feel a touch of pride at my younger self's dedication to literature, which gave him the strength of mind to resist the blandishments of the enemies of promise. The sirens of ad-land sang sweetly and seductively, but I thought of Odysseus lashing himself to the mast of his ship, and somehow stayed on course.