How we feel about the evolving future tells us who we are as individuals and as a civilization: Do we search for stasis-a regulated, engineered world? Or do we embrace dynamism-a world of constant creation, discovery, and competition?

The SAT is not perfect. We all know smart, knowledgeable people who do badly on standardized tests. But neither is it useless. SAT scores do measure both specific knowledge and valuable thinking skills.

Medicare is immune from the competitive pressures that force private insurers to pay attention to what patients and doctors want.

In a dynamic, decentralized system of individual choice and responsibility, people do not have to trust any authority but their own.

Progress through trial and error depends not only on making trials, but on recognizing errors.

Glamour doesn’t just happen, people don’t wake up in the morning glamorous.

Glamour is all about transcending this world and getting to an idealized, perfect place.