I do not believe in God, but I believe God is man’s greatest idea. Those incapable of religious feeling or those (like hard-core gay activists) who p….

The unhappy truth is that male homosexuality will never be fully accepted by the heterosexual majority, who are obeying the dictates not of bigoted s….

The visual is sorely undervalued in modern scholarship. Art history has attained only a fraction of the conceptual sophistication of literary critici….

When I meet gay men anywhere in the world, there is a spontaneity and a spirit of fun and mischief that lesbians seem incapable of..

America is still a frontier country of wide open spaces. Our closeness to nature is one reason why our problem is not repression but regression; our ….

Lacan , Derrida and Foucault are the perfect prophets for the weak, anxious academic personality, trapped in verbal formulas and perennially defeated….

Homeric mind is ingenuity, practical intelligence. There is no Rodin-like deep thinking, no mathematical or philosophical speculation. Odysseus think….

Simply follow nature, Rousseau declares. Sade, laughing grimly, agrees..

The only antidote to the magic of images is the magic of words..

Every year, feminists provide more and more evidence for the old charge that women can neither think nor write..

The born-yesterday French-besotted faddists, addicted sniffers of wet printer's ink, think they're starting on the ground floor; so they're condemned….

Butterfield 8, with its call-girl heroine working her way down the alphabet of men from Amherst to Yale, appeared at a very formative moment in my ad….

Hollywood movies of the Fifties, like The Ten Commandments and Ben-Hur, with their epic clash of pagan and Judeo-Christian cultures, tell more about ….

Modern bodybuilding is ritual, religion, sport, art, and science, awash in Western chemistry and mathematics. Defying nature, it surpasses it..

Every reading is partial, but that does not absolve us from the quest for meaning, which defines us as a species..

Every man must define his identity against his mother. If he does not, he just falls back into her and is swallowed up..

Man is not merely the sum of his masks. Behind the shifting face of personality is a hard nugget of self, a genetic gift.... The self is malleable bu….

Far from poisoning the mind, pornography shows the deepest truth about sexuality, stripped of romantic veneer..

In the theory of gender I began from zero. There is no masculine power or privilege I did not covet. But slowly, step by step, decade by decade, I wa….

The Gothic tradition was begun by Ann Radcliffe, a rare example of a woman creating an artistic style..

My political philosophy as a libertarian says that government has no business intervening in any consensual private behavior. My professional ethic a….