God chose what is weakest in the world to shame the strong.

If it is true that we need a degree of certainty to get by, it is also true that too much of the stuff can be lethal.

Theology, however implausible many of its truth claims, is one of the most ambitious theoretical arenas left in an increasingly specialized world

If history, philosophy and so on vanish from academic life, what they leave in their wake may be a technical training facility or corporate research institute. But it will not be a university in the classical sense of the term, and it would be deceptive to call it one.

Postmodernism is among other things a sick joke at the expense of... revolutionary avant-gardism.

There is an insuperable problem about introducing immigrants to British values. There are no British values. Nor are there any Serbian or Peruvian values. No nation has a monopoly on fairness and decency, justice and humanity.

The past can be used to renew the present, not just to bury it.