"My favorite time in the cycles of public life is the time when the Pope is dead and they haven't ele..." — Christopher Hitchens

I think I write in a fairly self-confident manner.

The suicide-bombing community is not absolutely 100 percent religious, but it is pretty nearly 100 percent religious.

I had real plans for my next decade and felt I'd worked hard enough to earn it. Will I really not live to see my children married? To watch the World Trade Center rise again? To read - if not indeed write - the obituaries of elderly villains like Henry Kissinger and Joseph Ratzinger?

You notice how liberals keep saying, 'If only Islam would have a Reformation' - it can't have one. It says it can't. It's extremely dangerous in that way.