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Let's say that the consensus is that our species, being the higher primates, Homo Sapiens, has been on the planet for at least 100,000 years, maybe mo...more

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We keep on being told that religion, whatever its imperfections, at least instills morality. On every side, there is conclusive evidence that the cont...more

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1. Bangladesh.... In 1971 ... Kissinger overrode all advice in order to support the Pakistani generals in both their civilian massacre policy in East ...more

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To permit this gross new revelation to fade, or be forgiven, would be to devalue our most essential standard of what constitutes the unpardonable. And...more

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It ought to be an offense to be excruciating and unfunny in circumstances where your audience is almost morally obliged to enthuse.

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The anti-life of [Jerry Falwell] proves only one thing: that you can get away with the most extraordinary offenses to morality and truth in this count...more

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Some readers may have noticed an icy little missive from Noam Chomsky ["Letters," December 3], repudiating the very idea that he and I had disagreed o...more

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Some say that because the United States was wrong before, it cannot possibly be right now, or has not the right to be right. (The British Empire sent ...more

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If the Bahreini royal family can have an embassy, a state, and a seat at the UN, why should the twenty-five million Kurds not have a claim to autonomy...more

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George Bush made a mistake when he referred to the Saddam Hussein regime as 'evil.' Every liberal and leftist knows how to titter at such black-and-wh...more

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As he grew older, which was mostly in my absence, my firstborn son, Alexander, became ever more humorous and courageous. There came a time, as the con...more

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About once or twice every month I engage in public debates with those whose pressing need it is to woo and to win the approval of supernatural beings....more

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You can see the same immorality or amorality in the Christian view of guilt and punishment. There are only two texts, both of them extreme and mutuall...more

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To be charitable, one may admit that the religious often seem unaware of how insulting their main proposition actually is. Exchange views with a belie...more

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The point of protesting about 'moral equivalence' is surely not to blur moral choices on ‘our side’. Is it?