Disrupt, and you will be saved.

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.

Folklore used to be passed by word of mouth, from one generation to the next; thats what makes it folklore, as opposed to, say, history, which is written down and stored in an archive.

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

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

History is a long and endlessly interesting argument, where evidence is everything and storytelling is everything else.

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