Dogmatists have one advantage: they are poor listeners.

After World War II it was decided that, in order to prevent the Germans and the French from having another war, it would be better to tie them together into one economic pact so they would invest in each other and have mutual stakes. Until now, that has worked to prevent warfare between the two.

As far as the environment is concerned, I am becoming pessimistic because I do not see anybody stepping up and taking the long view approach. It seems like we're stuck in a tragedy of the commons where everyone is trying to contribute as little as possible to get out of this situation.

Although elephants are far more distantly related to us than the great apes, they seem to have evolved similar social and cognitive capacities.

When it comes to social interaction, the chimpanzees appear to be just as intelligent as we are.

The role of inequity in society is grossly underestimated. Inequity is not good for your health, basically.

Personally, I think it is possible to build a society that is moral on a nonreligious basis, but the jury is still out on that.