Progressivism is usually seen as a stepping back from individualism into a progressive community...

I had spent years thinking about one thing while I was doing another. I had, in fact, prided myself on being able to do two things at once.

Mom was a smoker. My grandfather was a smoker. My aunts were smokers. My uncles were smokers. I don't know any smokers now, not even my mom.

Critical thinking is to a liberal education as faith is to religion. ... the converse was true also - faith is to a liberal education as critical thinking is to religion, irrelevant and even damaging.

Progressivism is usually seen as a stepping back from individualism into a progressive community...

I think that the Cold War was an exceptional and unnecessary piece of cruelty.

Writing novels is an essentially amateur activity.