Democracy is an imperfect way of steering between the violence of anarchy and the violence of tyranny, with the least violence you can get away with.

I like ice hockey. No one is ever going to ask me to write about that as a metaphor for life.

M.I.T. has a reputation for turning out Dilberts. They may be brilliant in what they do, but no one can understand what they say.

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

Without goals the very concept of intelligence is meaningless

Thinking is a physical process, the human brain is not exempt from evolution

My laptop has freed me to travel.