Drama!” said Mr. Hitchens.Robin Shrugged. “That’s what terrorism is, basically–pure theater. Nothing in particular is ever accomplished by it, other than to focus attention on a small group of people who seize absolute power by...

Once upon a time, [the guru] said, when God had finished making the world, he wanted to leave behind Him for man a piece of His own divinity, a spark of His essence, a promise...

I wasn’t offering her pity,” Mrs. Caswell said impatiently. “Tragedies don’t interest me, tragedies and heartbreaks are all alike, what matters is how a person meets them, how they survive them. Given the inevitability of...