In the grip of a neurological disorder I am fast losing control of words...
I used to wish there was a useful term for those of us who thought American...
The term 'the American Left' is as near to being meaningless or nonsensical...
The advice I've been giving to people all my life - that you may not be...
I don't think consensus-building politics is what I'm meant to be doing.
Of course I do everything for money.
I don't think it's possible to have a sense of tragedy without having a sense...
A lot of people because of my contempt for the false consolations of...
The cause of my life has been to oppose superstition. It's a battle you can't...
The penalty for getting mugged in an American city and losing your ID is that...
I think the materialist conception of history is valid.
'WASP' is the only ethnic term that is in fact a term of class apart from...
The great thing about the United States and the historically magnetic effect...
One of the great questions of philosophy is do we innately have morality or...
When I meet people who say - which they do all of the time - 'I must just...
High moral character is not a precondition for great moral accomplishments.
A good day is one where I can not just read a book but write a review of it....
I'm enamored with the art world. Anytime you look at anything that's considered artistic there's a commercial world around it: the ballet opera any kind of music. It can't exist without it.
