No matter how inured you get to atrocities, you're still always stunned and shocked by how cruel and wasteful Homo sapiens can be.

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.

Commerce is a noble profession, and Jews should get over any self-hatred they might harbor from contemplating the capitalist spirit of diaspora Judaism.

The typical imperative from biology is not "Thou shalt... ," but "If ... then ... else.

Without goals the very concept of intelligence is meaningless

We will never have a perfect world, but it's not romantic or naive to work toward a better one.

The elevation of parochial values to the realm of the sacred is a license to dismiss other people's interests, and an imperative to reject the possibility of compromise