The Americans didn't even think about the outcome of the bombing, because the Sudanese were so far below contempt as to be not worth thinking about. Suppose I walk down the sidewalk in Cambridge and, without a second thought, step on an ant. That would mean that I regard the ant as beneath contempt, and that's morally worse than if I purposely killed that ant.

Moral equivalence is a term of propaganda that was invented to try to prevent us from looking at the acts for which we are responsible. [...] There is no such …

September 11 shocked many Americans into an awareness that they had better pay much closer attention to what the US government does in the world and how it is …

Nothing can justify crimes such as those of September 11, but we can think of the United States as an 'innocent victim' only if we adopt the convenient path of…

I never cared about whatever tragic event happened in China. It's faraway decoration, even if in blood and plague.

Say does your heart expand to all mankind And would you ever to your neighbour do, - The weak, the strong, the enlightened and the blind - As you would have yo…

The worst sin towards our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity.