I think it [getting a gun] should be like getting a pilot's license. I think you should require training to get a license to have a gun.

Any conception of human well-being you could plausibly have, the Taliban patently fails to maximize it.

It is time that scientists and other public intellectuals observed that the contest between faith and reason is zero-sum.

Moderates want their faith respected. They don't want faith itself criticized, and yet faith itself is what is bringing us all this - this lunacy.

When someone like myself points out the rather obvious and compelling evidence that God is cruel and unjust, because he visits suffering on innocent people of a scope and scale that would embarrass the most ambitious psychopath, we're told that? God is mysterious.

I know of no society in human history that ever suffered because its people became too desirous of evidence in support of their core beliefs.

Each increment of knowledge imparted in this way is so satisfying-and one's ignorance at every stage so consequential-that the process of learning BJJ can become remarkably addictive. I have never experienced anything quite like it.