The theory that religion is a force for peace, often heard among the religious right and its allies today, does not fit the facts of history.

the mind is a neural computer

I think that a failure of statistical thinking is the major intellectual shortcoming of our universities, journalism and intellectual culture.

Photography is a demanding action sport. The light can change so quickly. I often find myself sprinting so that I can catch the perfect light falling on a photogenic subject.

If you look in general at people who live in anarchy, they have quite high rates of death from either homicide or warfare or both. Anarchy is one of the main reasons for violence, and it may be the most important.

Human nature is complex. Even if we do have inclinations toward violence, we also have inclination to empathy, to cooperation, to self-control.

As women are empowered, violence can come down, for a number of reasons. By all measures, men are the more violent gender.