our great common challenge ... is to free people from religion, get it out of our laws, our schools, our health systems, our government and, I would ….

If that's how it all started, then we might as well face the fact that what's left out there is a great deal of shrapnel and a whole bunch of cinders….

The fact is that heterosexual sex for most people is in no way free of the power relations between men and women..

Racist, sexist, and homophobic thoughts cannot, alas, be abolished by fiat but only by the time-honored methods of persuasion, education and exposure….

Of all the nasty outcomes predicted for women's liberation... none was more alarming, from a feminist point of view, than the suggestion that women w….

From an entertainment point of view, the Solar System has been a bust. None of the planets turns out to have any real-estate potential, and most of t….

Human intellectual progress, such as it has been, results from our long struggle to see things 'as they are,' or in the most universally comprehensib….

If God cares about our puny species, then disasters prove that he is not all-powerful; and if he is all-powerful, then clearly he doesn't give a damn..

One of the most essential and mundane of human activities - taking care of children - requires high levels of anxious vigilance. ... [Parents] dare n….

Individually the poor are not too tempting to thieves, for obvious reasons. Mug a banker and you might score a wallet containing a month's rent. Mug ….

The "discovery" of poverty at the beginning of the 1960s was something like the "discovery" of America almost five hundred years earlier. In the case….

war has dug itself into economic systems, where it offers a livelihood to millions ... It has lodged in our souls as a kind of religion, a quick toni….

if you search the bible, you will find no reference to birth control or gay marriage, and you will not find a word, strangely, about stem cell resear….

When I was born, my father was a copper miner in Butte, Montana. It was a hard-core, blue-collar situation..

Even when uttered by Democrats, "middle class" often sounds like a mealymouthed way of saying, "Us, and not them," where "them" includes poor people,….

In matters of the heart as well, a certain level of negativity and suspicion is universally recommended. You may try to project a thoroughly positive….

We need to brace ourselves for a struggle against terrifying obstacles...bot h of our own making and imposed by the natural world. And the first step….

Upscale young men seem to go for the kind of woman who plays with a full deck of credit cards..

Transcendent Oneness does not require self-examination, self-help, or self-work. It requires self-loss..

A free-enterprise economy depends only on markets, and according to the most advanced mathematical macroeconomic theory, markets depend only on moods….

Like many other women, I could not understand why every man who changed a diaper has felt impelled, in recent years, to write a book about it..