If The Body Had Been Easier To

Open-mindedness Should Not Be Fostered Because, As Scripture Teaches, Truth Is Great And Will Prevail, Nor Because, As Milton Suggests, Truth Will Always Win In A Free And Open Encounter. It Should Be Fostered For Its Own Sake.

My Sense Of The Holy Is Bound Up With The Hope That Some Day My Remote Descendants Will Live In A Global Civilization In Which Love Is Pretty Much The Only Law.

I Think You Can Have A Left That Isn't Culturally Conservative Talking About Lunch-bucket Issues.

[walt] Whitman And [humanist Educator John] Dewey Tried To Substitute Hope For Knowledge. They Wanted To Put Shared Utopian Dreams - Dreams Of An Ideally Decent And Civilized Society - In The Place Of Knowledge Of God's Will, Moral Law, The Laws Of History, Or The Facts Of Science.... As Long As We Have A Functioning Political Left, We Still Have A Chance To Achieve Our Country, To Make It The Country Of Whitman's And Dewey's Dreams.

The World Is Out There, But Descriptions Of The World Are Not.