Anthropology

Conspiracy is stronger than witchcraft.

The kind of multi-culturalism that I celebrate begins with the individual.

I agree that the motives of post-modernists are admirable, that they do rightly perceive biases that white male scientists often bring to the study of human behavior (in particular), and that there are other ways to knowledge; however, I do not like the way that they have opened the door to sloppy thinking and some very wrong takes on the nature of human life and the Universe that threaten to undermine and destroy all that our parents and grandparents struggled to establish for the good of all the children of this country of ours.

I don't know what your problem is Electra. You're so selfish. Look at your sister Iphigenia. She'd give her life for her mother and father!

Sociobiology isn't Science: it's Poetry.

The cottonwoods undulate outside....the blue light from without. How wonderful it would be if it flowed and had substance. How great it would be if you could have Crater Lake in a cup.

Taking a walk in a cemetery with the Buddha, I think, would give us a different sense of what death and continuity are all about. The place I'd really love to visit with him is the cryogenic crypt where they keep Ötzi the Ice Man.

If polygamy were legal, would I do it?

Those who insist that cultural relativism demands that we declare two cultures to be "equally wrong" on any given issue are -- dare I say it? -- wrong.