Each profession has its own toolkit.

Life's meaning heavily benefits from lifelong bonds.

Liberalism downplays certain of our moral senses: loyalty, authority, and sanctity.

My father, Benjamin Shiller, told me not to believe in authorities or celebrities - that society tends to imagine them as superhuman. It's good advice. People are snowed by celebrities all the time. In academia people have this idea of achieving stardom - publishing in the best journals, being at the best university, writing on the hot topic everyone else is writing about. But that's what my father told me not to do. He taught me that you have to pursue things that sound right to you.

In the longer run and for wide-reaching issues, more creative solutions tend to come from imaginative interdisciplinary collaboration.

It amazes me how people are often more willing to act based on little or no data than to use data that is a challenge to assemble.

The ability to focus attention on important things is a defining characteristic of intelligence.