These people who have politicised study—it not only doesn't do them any good, it doesn't do their students any good. I think it is a lie anyway, because they are not really political.

If they really wished to do something about the horrible way in which all societies—western as well as eastern—still treat women, they would be spending their nights in shelters for battered women and for unwed mothers.

They would be actively trying to do something politically in local elections about how badly African Americans and Hispanic Americans are treated. They're not doing these things. I think they're hypocrites.

The result of their culture wars has been to frighten large, and admittedly very stupid, portions of American society, the evangelical Christians, so called, the people who throughout the south and the southwest and the Midwest now dominate American politics.