Arousal leaves us mind-blind.

Without the New York Times, there is no blog community. They'd have nothing to blog about.

We tell ourselves that skill is the precious resource and effort is the commodity. It's the other way around. Effort can trump ability-relentl ess effort is in fact something rarer than the ability to engage in some finely tuned act of motor coordination.

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.

The injunction to be nice is used to deflect criticism and stifle the legitimate anger of dissent.

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

If everyone has to think outside the box, maybe it is the box that needs fixing.