I should have known better. Pro-life arguments are now based on scientific evidence and the pro-choice arguments are not. That is a cultural, historical fact.

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

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.

It is always incorrect to assume you can know what someone's moral convictions are based on their philosophical theories.

Belief and knowledge are considered to be two different things. But they are not.

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

Language is not a handmaiden to perception; it is perception; it gives shape to what would otherwise be inert and dead.