The purpose of a good education is to show you that there are three sides to a two-sided story.

Any idea can be brought into the classroom if the point is to inquire into its structure, history, influence and so forth. But no idea belongs in the classroom if the point of introducing it is to recruit your students for the political agenda it may be thought to imply.

I should have known better. Pro-life arguments are now based on scientific evidence and the pro-choice arguments are not. That is a cultural, historical fact.

Many people on the political left found my work psychologically liberating. They began to say: once you realize that standards emerge historically, then you can see through and discard all the norms to which we have been falsely enslaved.

I am in favor of affirmative action and gay and lesbian rights," he responded. "But I do not support abortion rights.

I do not support abortion rights. Although what I would support in this vexed area is not clear to me.