We are visual creatures. Visual things stay put, whereas sounds fade.

If the cartoon were completely accurate, though, life would be a cacophany of spoinks.

The idea that children are passive repositories to be shaped by their parents has been massively overstated. A child's peer group is a far greater determinant of its development and achievements than parental aspiration.

Theories of art carry the seeds of their own destruction.

There's guilt about our treatment of native peoples in modern intellectual life, and an unwillingness to acknowledge there could be anything good about Western culture.

I get drawn in when I feel there is something deep and mysterious going on beneath the surface of something.

Natural selection is not the only process that changes organisms over time. But is the only process that seemingly designs organisms over time.