EssJay was appointed at the request of and unanimous support of the ArbCom.

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

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

I spent lots of time reading the encyclopedia and really kind of an eclectic approach to learning things - not very structured.

I'm very much an Enlightenment kind of guy.

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

Almost anything is better than three network TV outlets completely controlling the national discourse with their nightly broadcasts. We've moved a long way from that, and that's important.