I think it's tragic that we have this human capacity, which appears to be hardwired, or so the evolutionary biologists say, for collective joy. We ha….

it used to be almost the first question (just after 'Can you type?') in the standard female job interview: 'Are you now, or have you ever, contemplat….

If there is no God or no evidence of God and certainly no evidence of a very morally engaged god, then whatever has to be done has to be done by us..

Surely there must be some way to find a husband or, for that matter, merely an escort, without sacrificing one's privacy, self-respect, and interior ….

The media have just buried the last yuppie, a pathetic creature who had not heard the news that the great pendulum of public consciousness has just s….

In sci-fi convention, life-forms that hadn't developed space travel were mere prehistory -- horse-shoe crabs of the cosmic scene -- and something of ….

I was raised the old-fashioned way, with a stern set of moral principles: Never lie, cheat, steal or knowingly spread a venereal disease. Never speed….

But our culture is in truly bad shape if we have come to define respecting something as the failure to set it on fire..

The Republican Party: a few million gun-toting, Armageddon-ready Baptists..

However and wherever war begins, it persists, it spreads, it propagates itself through time and across space with the terrifying tenacity of a beast ….

The label of liberalism is hardly a sentence to public ignominy: otherwise Bruce Springsteen would still be rehabilitating used Cadillacs in Asbury P….

Employers have gone away from the idea that an employee is a long-term asset to the company, someone to be nurtured and developed, to a new notion th….

It is the marketplace that calls most clearly for men to be softer, more narcissistic and receptive, and the new man is the result..

At Wal-Mart, a co-worker once advised me that, although I had a lot to learn, it was also important not to "know too much," or at least never to reve….

An asteroid could hit us at any moment. This is not - and also, the most successful kind of life on this planet is not us, it's microbes. They're the….

For a long time on Earth humans didn't worship good gods; that's a new idea. The ancient Greek gods, the Hindu gods, are fairly amoral, most of them.….

Exercise is the yuppie version of bulimia..

You still don't like the idea of gay marriage? Then, as my friend, the economist Julianne Malveaux, says: Don't marry a gay person. Case closed, prob….

Once you do lose a job, there are not a lot of social supports for you. You lose health insurance because we have this absurd system in America where….

At issue is not only knowledge of the world but our survival as individuals and as a species. All the basic technologies ever invented by humans to f….

... there hasn't been a serious life-style trend since the couch potato was sighted, in about 1986, on one of its rare forays to the video store. Coc….