In May, my cousin Christina and her husband Tyler were murdered in their home.

There is a difference between discriminating against someone because of the group to which he belongs and discriminating against someone on the basis of his actions.

I recoil when I read autobiographical explanations of someone else’s work. But not in these cases.

Race, class and gender are only the preludes to a personal identity bearing the marks of deliberation, struggle and choice.

Robert Lowell, a leader in the confessional poetry movement, suffered from bipolar disorder.

Sanger argued for compulsory sterilization and segregation for people with disabilities.

John F. Kennedy’s austere brand of patriotism still shines.

From its inception, the abolition of human death and aging has been one of the goals of transhumanism.

Cardinal Turkson insists that the ultimate causes of environmental degradation must be sought in the sinfulness of the human person.

I am an addict. I am a hoarder. I cannot give up books.