It's not about how smart you are. It's about your values.

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

We overlook just how large a role we all play--and by 'we' I mean society--in determining who makes it and who doesn't.

There are some people, who I'll charitably call snobs, who are dismissive of any conversation that doesn't begin with the full level of complexity. That's just not how the world works.

If you're in business it's both a promise and a warning. It says that sometimes little things can cause some little guy to have an overnight success.

Six degrees of separation doesn't mean that everyone is linked to everyone else in just six steps. It means that a very small number of people are linked to everyone else in a few steps, and the rest of us are linked to the world through those special few.

Does that mean we should give up? Probably. But there are two issues worth considering. The first is - is it really true that drugs destroy the integrity of the game?