The really important thing is not to reject anything. - Susan Sontag

Theories that diseases are caused by mental states and can be cured by will power are always an index of how much is not understood about a disease.

Americans are constantly extolling "traditions"; litanies to family values are at the center of every politician's discourse. And yet the culture of America is extremely corrosive of family life, indeed of all traditions except those redefined as "identities" that can be accepted as part of larger patterns of distinctiveness, cooperation, and openness to innovation.

War has been the norm and peace the exception