Sports Is, Somehow, A Religion.

We Talk About A Civilization And Love And We're Seeing It At The End. So Many People Around The World Are - That Whole Electronic Band That Dostoyevsky Imagined Of Love Around The World - That Every Contribution, Every Moment Of Love, Every Act Of Kindness Feeds That And Is Like A Reservoir For Somebody In Need To Draw Upon.

To Persuade Thinking Persons In Eastern Europe That Central American Marxists - The Sandinistas, The Guerillas In El Salvador - Are In Absurd And Tragic Error Is Not Difficult. Poles And Czechs And Hungarians Can Hardly Believe, After What They Experienced Under Socialism, That Other Human Beings Would Fall For The Same Bundle Of Lies, Half-truths, And Distortions. Sadly, However, Illusion Is Often Sweeter To Human Taste Than Reality. The Last Marxist In The World Will Probably Be An American Nun.

Christians Must Be Jews. The Truth Of What We Believe Depends On The Truth Of Judaism, Depends On The First Covenant.

Command By Instinct Is Swifter, Subtler, Deeper, More Accurate, More In Touch With Reality Than Command By Conscious Mind. The Discovery Takes One's Breath Away.

Ending Torture And Tyranny In Iraq Was Not A Mistake. Supporting Democracy In Iraq Is Not A Mistake. Helping The Long-suffering Muslims Of Iraq Who Now Seek To Live Democratically Is Not A Mistake. In The Long, Long History Of The Middle East, This Breakthrough May One Day Be Ranked As A Dramatic Turning Point In Regional History.