No Place for Faith

My break with faith occurred in me as it did and still does among people of our social and cultural type. As I see it, in most cases, it happens like ...

More Than Hardware

The visionaries of the electronic age have tended to only look at what it is possible for the new Age of Information to bring us, not what the probable ...

Right and Wrong Inescapable

The effects of virtue-free social policy have been devastating--but we don't seem quite ready to accept the alternative. Few politicians are comfortable ...

Calling Good Bad, Bad Good

In the mass-media age, journalism is more than the transmission of neutral information: It traffics in the kind of information and spectacle calculated ...

Statistic: Nonwedlock Births

Percentage of American children born out of wedlock in 1960: 5;
In 1991: 30; in 2017: 41

Shock-Proof

We have lost the invaluable faculty of being shocked--a faculty which has hitherto almost distinguished the Man or Woman from the beast or child.

Good Intentions Fail

What upsets every scene, domestic or political, is not man's desire to be so bad. So far I have never met a man who wanted to be bad. The mystery ...

The Genesis of Ugly Behavior

Chaperones, even in their days of glory, were almost never able to enforce morality; what they did was to force immorality to be discreet. This is no ...

A Clear Conscience or None at All

There is only one way to achieve happiness on this terrestrial ball,

And that is to have either a clear conscience or none at all.

Moral Indifference

The current popular notion that judging others is in itself a sin leads to such inappropriate maxims as 'I'm okay and you're okay.' It ...