Knowledge is what we get when an observer, preferably a scientifically trained observer, provides us with a copy of reality that we can all recognize.

George Orwell's contention was that it is a sure sign of trouble when things can no longer be called by their right names and described in plain, forthright speech.

Because politics rests on an irreducible measure of coercion, it can never become a perfect realm of perfect love and justice.

Liberals subscribe to the new flexible, pluralistic definition of the family; their defense of families carries no conviction.

The attempt to redefine the family as a purely voluntary arrangement grows out of the modern delusion that people can keep all their options open all the time.

Adherents of the new religious right reject the separation of politics and religion, but they bring no spiritual insights to politics.