On anger and its contemporary causes.

There was a time, as a member of a white supremacist organization, that I rejoiced as I witnessed riots and the breakdown of relations between the black population and the police.

One of the most awful elements, I think, is the idea that individuals should be defined in terms of their group identity at all.

Proportion is necessary in all things, especially in anger and outrage.

Pell's interview showed a man who has suffered one of the greatest miscarriages of justice in modern times.

The vagaries of paganism are strange and horrifying. 

A music critic once wrote about the Austro-American pianist Artur Schnabel that he was great because his motto seemed to be: "Safety last."

"Observers have described religious persecution in China over the last year to be of an intensity not seen since the Cultural Revolution."

I travelled from Poland, already inwardly frozen by the eerie chill of Communism — and Communist Prague did nothing to raise my spirits.

I think, in a way, that the best response to the near-slaughter (five were injured — many more victims were intended) in Monsey, N.Y., came before the event and from across the water.