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

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

The extreme self-sacrifice characteristic of group-selected species such as ants and bees can often be found among soldiers.

Happiness can only be found within, by breaking attachments to external things and cultivating an attitude of acceptance.

If I believe that abortion is wrong, and I want to convince you that it's wrong, there's no reason I should recount to you my personal narrative of how I came to believe this.

Happiness doesn't come from getting what you want. It doesn't come from within, either. Happiness comes from *between*--from finding the right relationship between yourself and others, between yourself and your work, and between yourself and something larger than yourself.

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