I first became a vegetarian when I was nine in response to an argument made by a radical babysitter. My great change - which lasted a couple of weeks - was based on the very simple instinct that it's wrong to kill animals for food.
We've made science experiments of ourselves and our children.
I'm interested in the kind of religion that makes life harder. I'm not so...
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There is a glaring reason that the necessary total ban on nontherapeutic use...
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Jews have a special relationship to books and the Haggadah has been...
I'm not funny. People assume that because my books are funny I'll be funny...
My kid could get a bad X-ray and I could get a call from the doctor saying I...
What creates freedom? A revolution in the streets? Mass protest? Civil war? A...
Europe is dying. That is one of the unsayable truths of our time. We are...
Most of what needs to be changed in the euro zone can be done without treaty...
Much can and must be done by governments but they cannot of themselves...
I don't want to clip on the armour every morning. I've seen some politicians...
Governments cannot make marriages or turn feckless individuals into...
I'd be happy to be taken as a woman - and that's what I was initially trying...
The Howard Hughes I knew began to change after his plane crash in 1941.