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

I did say that in-group, authority and purity are necessary for the maintenance of order, but I would never give them a blanket endorsement.

If you think half of America votes badly because they are stupid or religious, you are trapped in a matrix ... Take the red pill, learn some moral psychology and step outside the moral matrix.

Empathy is an antidote to righteousness, although it's very difficult to empathize across a moral divide

[W]hen a group of people make something sacred, the members of the cult lose the ability to think clearly about it. Morality binds and blinds.

I'll suggest that the happiness hypothesis offered by Buddha and the Stoics should be amended: Happiness comes from within, and happiness comes from without. We need the guidance of both ancient wisdom and modern science to get the balance right.

Legalizing homosexuality is not the first step on a slippery slope to legalizing everything.