We don't genuinely need more literary geniuses. One can only read so many books in a lifetime.

We don't genuinely need more literary geniuses. One can only read so many books in a lifetime.

Letting him manage in the major leagues is like sending Bo Derek through cellblock A without a bodyguard.

When people disagree with you, what you ultimately have to do is persuade people to agree with you - period.

On the other hand, if you suggest to a person who has been a victim of a serious crime that we take the issue too seriously, they'll look at you like you're crazy. So that's a really tough issue, whether we're doing more harm than good by paying so much attention to a few cases that honestly don't normally intersect with our lives.

Men feel challenged when a woman is in danger, so those types of stories interest women and they interest men on a level that the crimes against men tend to draw a different visceral reaction. Again, not saying it's right, but they tend to draw a different visceral reaction, which is that the man was out in the world doing men stuff and something happened to him.

Famous crime stories almost always lead to the passing of new laws. There's a great many intersections between this unseemly tabloid phenomena and serious social issues and we never get to that intersection because serious people don't like to talk about that unattractive stuff.