You can't ultimately dodge defeat by winning close elections.
Fundamentalists are panicked by the apparent disintegration of the family, the disappearance of certainty and the decay of morality. Fear leads them to ask, if we cannot trust the Bible, what can we trust?
Do people really believe there's something different about the eyes of murderers?
Crime stories show us the part of people's lives they try to keep hidden.
There are, I believe, many more false confessions to murders than true confessions.
The social arrangements that produce responsibility are arrangements that create coercion, of some sort.
There really isn't a time to pause and have a celebration. I feel so serious about the whole thing.
I was writing a chapter of Beautiful Evidence on the subject of the sculptural pedestal, which led to my thinking about what's up on the pedestal - the great leader.
But it is no good using the tongs of reason to pull the Fundamentalists' chestnuts out of the fire of contradiction. Their real troubles lie elsewhere.
How I say it has as much of an impact on what people think of me as what I say.
Professionalism in law has brought us the O.J. Simpson case in lieu of justice.
Any of us are capable of doing things we're not proud of under the wrong kind of stresses.
I do have a family, and obviously I spend as much time as I can with them. Though even when I'm with my family, my mind tends to drift toward baseball.
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights describes the family as the natural and fundamental unit of society. It follows that any choice and decision with regard to the size of the family must irrevocably rest with the family itself, and cannot be m...
The statistics of life out there and the statistics of intelligent beings and advanced civilization is a certainty, the way I look at it. that It has not been accepted, because we've been in an anthropocentric era.
Preserving parks and open spaces is a winner because it doesn't need to be explained to everyday Americans.
The fundamental problem for Republicans when it comes to the environment is that whatever you say is viewed through the prism of suspicion.
It may seem a strange principle to enunciate as the very first requirement in a hospital that it should do the sick no harm.
Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better.
Professionalism in medicine has given us medial miracles for the affluent but hospitals that will charge $35 for aspirin.
In a crime story, the details become tremendously important - where the staircase was in relation to the bed, for example.
