The study of history requires investigation, imagination, empathy, and respect. Reverence just doesnt enter into it.

Disrupt, and you will be saved.

Epidemiologists study patterns in order to combat infection. Stories about epidemics follow patterns, too. Stories arent often deadly, but they can be virulent: spreading fast, weakening resistance, wreaking havoc.

Conservatism cherishes tradition; innovation fetishizes novelty. They tug in different directions, the one toward the past, the other toward the future.

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.

In kindergarten, you can learn how to be a citizen of the world.

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