Why should we be so pleased and moved that infant mortality decreased at the same time we were free to kill as many of these same babies just before birth?

I know of no better reflection of the disenchantment of the modern world than a traffic jam. It is truly soul-destroying.

What has become a secular symbol of greed and pop sentimentality — probably the worst possible way to celebrate Jesus’ birth — can be reinvested with meaning that points to the true Messiah.