Hard work is a prison sentence only if it does not have meaning.

So the first task of a police force is not to fight crime and enforce the law. It is to establish legitimacy with the law-abiding citizenry and then fight crime and enforce the law.

Since becoming a journalist, each time I engage with subjects I become more radicalized.

Character isn't what we think it is or, rather, what we want it to be. It isn't a stable, easily identifiable set of closely related traits, and it only seems that way because of a glitch in the way our brains are organized. Character is more like a bundle of habits and tendencies and interests, loosely bound together and dependent, at certain times, on circumstance and context.

Lesson Number One: The Importance of Being Jewish

I'm convinced that ideas and behaviors and new products move through a population very much like a disease does.

One of the things I think the police have to do is to stop behaving like armies.