Everything isn't subjective. Reality also matters. Truth matters. It is still a word with meaning.

Only a knowledgeable, empowered and vocal citizenry can perform well in democracy.

Indeed, the maligned American pastime of baseball may be by-far the greatest and best sport by one criterion, when it comes to emulating and training for genuinely useful Neolithic skills! Think about it. The game consists of lots of patient waiting and watching (stalking), throwing with incredible accuracy and speed, sprinting, dodging... and hitting moving objects real hard with clubs! And arguing. Hey, what else could you possibly need? Now, tell me, how do soccer or basketball prepare you to survive in the wild, hm?

Change is the principal feature of our age and literature should explore how people deal with it. The best science fiction does that, head-on.

My first duty to write a gripping yarn. Second is to convey credible characters who make you feel what they feel. Only third comes the idea.

The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.

Reciprocal accountability, or criticism [is] the only known antidote to error.