Go back to classical times, say classical Greece. Who drank the hemlock? Was it someone who was conforming, obeying the gods? Or was it someone who was disrupting the youth and questioning the faith and belief? Socrates, in other words. It was Socrates.

Amusing and perfectly self-conscious charlatans.

Free speech has been used by the Supreme Court to give immense power to the wealthiest members of our society.

[Health-care system] is largely privatized and unregulated. So of course it's highly inefficient and costly.

Anatomically modern humans are found up to 200,000 years ago; behaviourally modern humans appear very recently in evolutionary time, as far as evidence now exists, perhaps within a window of 50-100,000 years ago, a flick of an eye in evolutionary time.

Right after 9-11, as far as I know, one newspaper in the United States had the integrity to investigate opinion in the Muslim world: the 'Wall Street Journal.'

There certainly are those who worship the state much as divinities are worshipped. Not just the state but even leaders.