A Talent For Speaking Differently, Rather Than

National Pride Is To Countries What Self-respect Is To Individuals: A Necessary Condition For Self-improvement.

Every Government, Left Or Right, Always Engages In Moral Crusades. What Else Are They Supposed To Do? Especially When They Make War; Any War Has To Be A Moral Crusade.

Open-mindedness Should Not Be Fostered Because, As Scripture Teaches, Truth Is Great And Will Prevail, Nor Because, As Milton Suggests, Truth Will Always Win In A Free And Open Encounter. It Should Be Fostered For Its Own Sake.

The Most Important Advance That The West Has Yet Made Is To Develop A Secularist Moral Tradition

To Abjure The Notion Of The Truly Human Is To Abjure The Attempt To Divinize The Self As A Replacement For A Divinized World.