Promises to get beyond partisanship are the most perfunctory sort of campaign rhetoric, almost as empty as the partisanship itself.

In the last James Bond movie, the villain was a culture captain, a tycoon of culture, a Murdoch figure. It's not as if people don't know what is going on.

For-profit higher education is today a booming industry, feeding on the student loans handed out to the desperate.

Massive inequality, we have learned, isn't the best way to run an economy after all. And when you think about it, it's also profoundly ugly.

Bad government is the natural product of rule by those who believe government is bad.

When money is exchanged for pregnancy, some believe, surrogacy comes close to organ-selling, or even baby-selling.

I was in a bad mood when I wrote that.

I think there's great potential for autonomy, but we have to remember that we live in a world where people may have free will but have not invented their circumstances.

What becomes fascinating is the way the culture industry doesn't deny it and doesn't try to mitigate it, but tries to sell its products as a way of liberating oneself.

These days, of course, the focus of talk about popular liberation through products is mostly associated with the Internet. I've been collecting computer ads and ads dealing with Internet industries.

When you take somebody's quote out of context, which happens all the time, nobody's ever going to go and do the research on their own and figure out that you got it wrong.

It's like suddenly in the Middle Ages, people figured men should be in charge of women's bodies since they were in charge of pretty much everything else

Reading books in one's youth is like looking at the moon through a crevice

I begin the chapter and book on very elementary reasoning and a simple description: this description of relationships developed naturally and socially

If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own.

We all keep dreaming, and luckily, dreams come true.

More and more, it feels like I'm doing a really bad impersonation of myself.

Yesterday was the New York City Marathon. The marathon was won in record time by a Democrat candidate running away from President Obama.

God decided to create a species with whom he could have fellowship. Who are we to say that evolution was a dumb way to do it? It was an incredibly elegant way to do it.

I read Christopher McDougall's book 'Born to Run.' If running were a religion, this would be its bible. I actually scribbled my favorite passages on my arm to read during the race.

My biggest achievement is my children.