One of the most important disciplines in journalism is to challenge your working premises.

One of the most important disciplines in journalism is to challenge your working premises.

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.

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

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

Whether or not Twitter makes you stupid, it certainly makes some smart people sound stupid.

Julian Assange, the WikiLeaks founder, has on several occasions talked about transparency as an absolute principle. I don't personally believe that.