I do not support abortion rights. Although what I would support in this vexed area is not clear to me.

Opinion-sharing sessions are like junk food: they fill you up with starch and leave you feeling both sated and hungry. A sustained inquiry into the truth of a matter is an almost athletic experience; it may exhaust you, but it also improves you.

We in universities are not in the democracy business. What we do, when we're doing it, is teach and learn.

The idea - the core idea of humanism - is that the act of reading about great deeds will lead you to imitate them.

In general, higher education does not know how to speak for its interests. It offers a stance that is defensive, cowardly and likely to be ineffective.

A pro-choice advocate sees abortion as a decision to be made in accordance with the best scientific opinion as to when the beginning of life, as we know it, occurs.

No word floats without an anchoring connection within an overall structure.