When time permits, I try to see interesting people in the cities I visit. In Seattle, I met Paul Allen, the co-founder of Microsoft, who is shy in personality but flamboyant in his philanthropy.

As long as your ideology identifies the main source of the world's ills as a definable group, it opens the world up to genocide.

Morality is not just any old topic in psychology but close to our conception of the meaning of life. Moral goodness is what gives each of us the sense that we are worthy human beings.

Personality and socialization aren't the same thing.

But the newest research is showing that many properties of the brain are genetically organized, and don't depend on information coming in from the senses.

By all measures men are the more violent gender.

Consistent style prevents presentation from getting in the way of content.