There is something decidedly faux about the camaraderie of Facebook, something illusory about the connectedness of Twitter.

I'm convinced that the most important division in human affairs is probably not the one between left and right, liberal and conservative. It's the one between zealotry and understanding, between absolute conviction and compromise, between preachers and politicians.

Casual reliance on unnamed sources...corrodes our credibility and, in cases that are rare but not rare enough, may abet journalistic malpractice.

My view of social media is that it is a set of tools, not a religion.

Liberation movements - operating surreptitiously and conspiratorially - thrive on discipline and suspicion, and punish deviation or dissent.

Anyone with an Internet service provider can be a pundit or whatever they want.

A vote for Mitt Romney is a vote for Satan.