Once you understand the power of stimulus control, you can use it to your advantage by changing the stimuli in your environment and avoiding undesirable ones; or, if that's not possible, by filling your consciousness with thoughts about their less tempting aspects.

Groups create supernatural beings not to explain the universe but to order their societies.

Most of our social nature is like that of other primates - we're mostly out for ourselves.

I got interested in the American culture war back in 2004, and it's one of the only growth stocks I've ever invested in.

If you have high IQ, you're really good at finding post-hoc arguments to support your feelings of truthiness.

If you have a personality predisposed to liberalism, you might gravitate more to the artsy crowd or the anti-establishment crowd. And then those peers will affect you, and they will give you values, and you will copy them.

Economic issues are just as much moral issues as social issues.