As technology accumulates and people in more parts of the planet become interdependent, the hatred between them tends to decrease, for the simple reason that you can't kill someone and trade with him too.

A successful learner, . . . must be constrained to draw some conclusions from the input and not others.

I spent 20 years doing research on regular and irregular verbs, not because I'm an obsessive language lover but because it seemed to me that they tapped into a fundamental distinction in language processing, indeed in cognitive processing, between memory lookup and rule-driven computation.

Broadly speaking, the Southern and Western desert and mountain states will vote for the candidate who endorses an aggressive military, a role for religion in public life, laissez-faire economic policies, private ownership of guns and relaxed conditions for using them, less regulation and taxation, and a valorization of the traditional family.

The likelihood that inborn differences are one contributor to social status does not mean that it is the only contributor.

Students do everything on laptops these days, so I definitely think electronic books are a trend that's going to expand.

I think a lot of moral debates are not over what is the basis of justice, but who gets a ticket to play in the game.