Philosophy addresses, in a systematic and progress-making way, questions of deep concern to everyone.
The relationship of black Americans to Obama is sociologically riveting.
My own early crusade for same-sex marriage, for example, is now mainstream gay politics. It wasn't when I started.
It's only because you can now watch cheerfully biased Fox News that you begin to realize how cheerlessly biased CNN really is - and always was. Or CBS. Or ABC. Or the BBC.
When you put a tiny and despised minority up for a popular vote, the minority usually loses.
Michael Moore: a man who never without an excuse for keeping murdering tyrants in power. But now he's supporting the man who bombed Milosevic into submission? How about an explanation, Mr Moore?
The Dixiecrats meet again in New York. Now they're called Republicans.
But people will laugh at all sorts of things.
We suffer pain, we hang tight to hope, we nurture expectations, we are plagued occasionally by fears, we are haunted by defeats and unrealized hopes. . . The hoplessness of which I speak is not limited.
Good men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong; he has a thousand who has overcome it.
Fashion can be cruel. Style is a gift to others.