History is hereditary only in this way: we, all of us, inherit everything, and then we choose what to cherish, what to disavow, and what to do next, which is why it's worth trying to know where things come from.

Disrupt, and you will be saved.

Epidemics follow patterns because diseases follow patterns. Viruses spread; they reproduce; they die.

Republicans were more pro-choice than Democrats up until the late 1980s.

Nineteenth-century grass-roots populism made twentieth-century progressivism possible.

In antihistory, time is an illusion.

A great deal of what many Americans hold dear is nowhere written on those four pages of parchment, or in any of the amendments. What has made the Constitution durable is the same as what makes it demanding: the fact that so much was left out.