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

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.

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

The purpose of a good education is to show you that there are three sides to a two-sided story.

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

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

Many people on the political left found my work psychologically liberating. They began to say: once you realize that standards emerge historically, then you can see through and discard all the norms to which we have been falsely enslaved.