There is no larger collective-action problem than the environment. The three biggest lies of the environmental movement is that every little bit helps, you can do your part, and together we can do it.

The great tension in media has always been that freedom and quality are conflicting goals.

It is possible to think that the Internet will be a net positive for society while admitting that there are significant downsides - after all, it's not a revolution if nobody loses.

Even with the sacred printing press, we got erotic novels 150 years before we got scientific journals.

The future presented by the internet is the mass amateurization of publishing and a switch from 'Why publish this?' to 'Why not?

Civic participants don't aim to make life better merely for members of the group. They want to improve even the lives of people who never participate.

The tools that a society uses to create and maintain itself are as central to human life as a hive is to bee life. Though the hive is not part of any individual bee, it is part of the colony, both shaped by and shaping the lives of its inhabitants.