the fastest-growing brand of religion is of the magical 'name it and claim it' variety, in which the deity exists only to meet one's immediate, self-….

Call it 'nationalism' when you affix a flag to your car, and leave the word 'patriotism' for your efforts to make this country a kinder, more egalita….

Upscale young men seem to go for the kind of woman who plays with a full deck of credit cards, who won't cry when she's knocked to the ground while t….

That's the really neat thing about Dan Quayle, as you must have realized from the first moment you looked into those lovely blue eyes: impeachment in….

The one regret I have about my own abortions is that they cost money that might otherwise have been spent on something more pleasurable, like taking ….

A cynic might conclude that the real purpose of the $500 million-a-year implant business is the implantation of fat in the bellies and rumps of under….

We who officially value freedom of speech above life itself seem to have nothing to talk about but the weather..

No culture on earth outside of mid-century suburban America has ever deployed one woman per child without simultaneously assigning her such major pro….

Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous..

To be homeless in America is to live like a fugitive. The destitute are our own native-born "illegals.".

What would it mean in practice to eliminate all the 'negative people' from one's life [as demanded by motivational speaker J.P. Maroney]? It might be….

There is a vast difference between positive thinking and existential courage..

Some people make stuff; other people have to buy it. And when we gave up making stuff, starting in the 1980s, we were left with the unique role of bu….

The failure to think positively can weigh on a cancer patient like a second disease..

Personally, I have nothing against work, particularly when performed, quietly and unobtrusively, by someone else. I just don't happen to think it's a….

Then, in the 1980's, came the paroxysm of downsizing, and the very nature of the corporation was thrown into doubt. In what began almost as a fad and….

I realize that after decades of positive thinking the notion of realism, of things as they are, may seem a little quaint. ... When the stakes are hig….

Labor is like motherhood to most of our political leaders: a calling so fine and noble that it would be sullied by talk of vulgar, mundane things lik….

It's a glorious universe the positive thinkers have come up with, a vast, shimmering aurora borealis in which desires mingle freely with their realiz….

Both chronic, long-term poverty and downward mobility from the middle class are in the same category of things that America likes not to think about..

Frankly, I adore your catchy slogan, "Adoption, not Abortion," although no one has been able to figure out, even with expert counseling, how to use a….