Television is apparently the enemy of nuance. But nuance is essential for a thoughtful discussion.

It is because the fight against the harshest aspects of unrestricted capitalism is therefore a political problem and not an intellectual one that community action remains so essential.

It is so shocking to find out how many people do not believe that they can learn, and how many more believe learning to be difficult.

The left and the right live in parallel universes. The right listens to talk radio, the left's on the Internet and they just reinforce one another. They have no sense of reality. I have now one ambition: to retire before it becomes essential to tweet.

One very important ingredient of success is a good, wide-awake, persistent, tireless enemy.

David used to pal around with JFK so apparently they both collected it.