Today's bureaucrats speak and think in a language of social-managerial gibberish.

It seems that an apology is demanded whenever some horrendous wrong is discovered to have been committed in the distant past by Catholic priests and religious, on the one hand, and/or agents of the State, on the other hand.

There is a gesture that I have detested ever since an Albanian policeman made it in my direction about thirty years ago.

The de facto atheists who tend to dominate American culture today imagine that the disappearance of Christianity will be a nearly unmixed blessing.

What is honor?

It will soon be thirty years since the implosion of the Soviet Union.

I suppose all political parties are a mixture of ideological and pragmatic elements.

Notwithstanding the recent disruptions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, we are still very fortunate by the standards of all previously existing human populations.

It is surely one of the objects of literature to make us conversant, from the inside as it were, of the situation of others...