If the Bible is a creation myth, it is an amorphous confusing one

Some fine day, Democrats may figure out how to get on the right side of the value divide - how to define America as a place of the common good and not a playground of the strong.

Who of us does not recognize that the life we live, however larded with brave talk about values and thought and ideals, is not actually a life dedicated to immersion in the endless torrent of images, songs, sounds and stories?

If the Bible is a creation myth, it is an amorphous confusing one

I am concerned about how to reverse the process by which a fundamentalist right and a corporate elite were able to seize power in the United States.

A century of convulsive change leaves huge demographic gouge marks.

The mobilisation which Bush has been able to perform since 11 September 2001 has to be fought - at least by Americans - in the name of a wise, honourable and democratic patriotism.