In societies no less than individuals, acknowledging our limitations may ultimately be more humane than denying them.

Terrorist bombings, like rampage shootings, are events that maximize the amount of publicity per amount of damage. That's why people do them, because they know they will set off a media frenzy.

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

However much we might deplore the profit motive, or consumerist values, if everyone just wants i-Pods we would probably be better off than if they wanted class revolution.

If anything, Powerpoint, if used well, would ideally reflect the way we think.

The connections I draw between human nature and political systems in my new book, for example, were prefigured in the debates during the Enlightenment and during the framing of the American Constitution.

Disgust is intuitive microbiology