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.

This excellent book "The Victim Cult: How the culture of blame hurts everyone and wrecks civilizations" was eight years in the writing and it shows.

Egalitarianism is the radical error of our time.  

Most of our Founding Fathers were not deeply informed about Catholicism, but they appreciated moral integrity when they saw it.

As I was getting ready for tonight, I remembered a line from the Israeli peace negotiator who said that pessimists are simply optimists with experience.