The federal government is basically an insurance company with an army.

Anyone who thinks that the last 80 years, ever since FDR took us off gold, have been a doomed venture, that strikes me as kind of cranky.

Can we break the machine that is imposing right-wing radicalism on the United States? The scariest part is that the media is part of that machine.

I have friends, political scientists, sociologists, who all share an interest at least in certain kinds of science fiction.

Evidence and expertise have a well-known liberal bias.

If you are a good economist, a virtuous economist, you are reborn as a physicist. But if you are an evil, wicked economist, you are reborn as a sociologist.

The habit of disguising ideology as expertise has created a deficit of legitimacy.