When one emphasizes, as Jacques Derrida once remarked, one always overemphasizes.

In the end, it is because the media are driven by the power and wealth of private individuals that they turn private lives into public spectacles. If every private life is now potentially public property, it is because private property has undermined public responsibility.

I attacked Dawkins's book on God because I think he is theologically illiterate.

Evil is unintelligible. It is just a thing in itself, like boarding a crowded commuter train wearing only a giant boa constrictor. There is no context which would make it explicable.

As far as belief goes, postmodernism prefers to travel light: it has beliefs, to be sure, but it does not have faith

A truly common culture is not one in which we all think alike, or in which we all believe that fairness is next to godliness, but one in which everyone is allowed to be in on the project of cooperatively shaping a common way of life.

Ideology... is a kind of contemporary mythology, a realm which has purged itself of ambiguity and alternative possibility.