Can we take a moment to reflect on children, and what the world really does have in store for them?

In 1948, the idea of interracial marriage in the United States was almost unimaginable. The few polls on this topic at the time showed that Americans were nearly unanimous in their disapproval of it.

The first 10 years of the 21st century were humanity's finest -- even for the world's bottom billion.

Go on and live dangerously -- hang out the wash.Every time a person sticks a clothespin on a pair of undies, he or she is saying, "I want a better world. And I'm willing to do what it takes."

In the standard school, the principal, in demanding that the student not wear the swastika, would himself have been engaged in an act of bullying. He would have been using his superior power to inflict his will upon the student, who had no power in that setting.