I love those people who do story-telling and who ramble on, but I don't do that, I tell jokes - the sort of jokes that anyone really could tell in the pub.
Liberalism downplays certain of our moral senses: loyalty, authority, and sanctity.
Economists who adhere to rational-expectations models of the world will never admit it, but a lot of what happens in markets is driven by pure stupidity - or, rather, inattention, misinformation about fundamentals, and an exaggerated focus on currently circulating stories.
In the longer run and for wide-reaching issues, more creative solutions tend to come from imaginative interdisciplinary collaboration.
It amazes me how people are often more willing to act based on little or no data than to use data that is a challenge to assemble.
The ability to focus attention on important things is a defining characteristic of intelligence.
Some of the best theorizing comes after collecting data because then you become aware of another reality.
The comics medium has some unusual features that do make it very different, in that it's combining a verbal narrative with a visual one that allows for much richer possibilities of transmitting information.
The harder [role] the better. Definitely. When somebody turns around and says, "She can't do that," then that's the one I want to do.
A failed Iraq would make America less secure.
I live cinema and passionately love music, and my efforts in both these crafts are unfolding.