There clearly is a serious race problem in the country. Just take a look at what's happening to African American communities. For example wealth, wealth in African American communities is almost zero. The history is striking.

Obama's primary constituency was financial institutions. They were the core of the funding for his campaign. They expect to be paid back. And they were. They were paid back by coming out richer and more powerful than they were before the crisis that they created.

The internet could be a very positive step towards education, organisation and participation in a meaningful society.

It may be beyond the limits of human intelligence to understand how human intelligence works.

The Internet is an élite organization; most of the population of the world has never even made a phone call.

Evolutionary theory has nothing to say, in general, as to whether cheating is more advantageous than cooperating. There are many circumstances in which the contrary would be true, and empirical evidence, though it exists, has little bearing on real situations.

We should not be speaking to, but with. That is second nature to any good teacher.