My biggest problem with modernity may lie in the growing separation of the ethical and the legal

To be completely cured of newspapers, spend a year reading the previous week's newspapers.

My biggest problem with modernity may lie in the growing separation of the ethical and the legal

The best way to measure the loss of intellectual sophistication - this "nerdification," to put it bluntly - is in the growing disappearance of sarcasm, as mechanic minds take insults a bit too literally.

In economic life and history more generally, just about everything of consequence comes from black swans; ordinary events have paltry effects in the long term.

We should ban banks from risk-taking because society is going to pay the price.

We tend to use knowledge as therapy.