Liberals are my friends, my colleagues, my social world.

In real life, however, you don't react to what someone did; you react only to what you think she did, and the gap between action and perception is bridged by the art of impression management. If life itself is but what you deem it, then why not focus your efforts on persuading others to believe that you are a virtuous and trustworthy cooperator?

If our goal is to understand the world, to seek a deeper understanding of the world, our general lack of moral diversity here is going to make it harder. Because when people all share values, when people all share morals, they become a team.

We can tolerate great diversity in our aesthetic beliefs, but we can't tolerate much diversity in our moral beliefs.

People are wrong when they say that everything should be more diverse, even, say, rock bands. It's an error, an overgeneralization.

Sports is to war as pornography is to sex. We get to exercise some ancient, ancient drives.

People are voting for the kind of country they want to live in, and there are different views about what kind of country we should have.