My view is that good community management is like having good municipal government: You should be able to have dissenting opinions and so on, freedom of speech, but your grandmother should also be able to walk down the street at night without having to worry about getting mugged.

What you don't get in the mainstream media is so much of the background material.

People are not fundamentally bad. It only takes the smallest of correctives to take care of that tiny minority that wants to disrupt the community.

I think it's a mistake to treat different realms of knowledge as if they are some how fundamentally the same.

I'm very much an Enlightenment kind of guy.

Dialing down is not an option for me.

A huge amount of what goes on in the Middle East has to do with people being fed really bad information.