A woman's noblest station is retreat.
Economics, as it has emerged, can be made more productive by paying greater and more explicit attention to the ethical considerations that shape human behaviour and judgment.
The notion of human right builds on our shared humanity. These rights are not derived from the citizenship of any country, or the membership of any nation, but are presumed to be claims or entitlements of every human being. They differ, therefore, from constitutionally created rights guaranteed for specific people.
Sometimes the lack of substantive freedoms relates directly to economic poverty, which robs people of the freedom to satisfy hunger; or to achieve sufficient nutrition, or to obtain remedies for treatable illnesses or the opportunity to be adequatley clothed or sheltered, or to enjoy clean water or sanitary facilities.
No substantial famine has ever occurred in any independent and democratic country with a relatively free press.
While I am interested both in economics and in philosophy, the union of my interests in the two fields far exceeds their intersection.
There are Muslims of all kinds. The idea of closing them into a single identity is wrong.
Moonlight making crosses on your body, and me putting my mouth on every one.
Repentance is a grace of God's Spirit whereby a sinner is inwardly humbled and visibly reformed.
There would be more genuine rejoicing at the discovery of a complete new novel by Jane Austen than any other literary discovery, short of a new major play by Shakespeare.
You appreciate little things, like walks on the beach with a defibrillator.