Society

“Learning begins with curiosity and children are nothing but question-boxes.”

"When AI does our writing for us, we diminish opportunities to think out problems for ourselves."

“Marx’s hypothesis that a person’s voting habits would be determined by their relationship to the means of production was blown out of the water…”

“We must surrender the notion that adolescence is a dress rehearsal for adulthood. It’s not; it’s real life!

“The state lottery is just about the only financial vehicle that offers people of modest means a realistic opportunity to materially impact their economic circumstances.”

"The Fed’s 2% inflation policy is a modern version of the Levitical program. It pays for the social safety net that is our way of redistributing wealth.”

“Macaulay Culkin is ‘every boy’ and his Home Alone family is ‘America’s family’ – except it’s not!”

“He cured the sick and fed the hungry…because it was the right thing to do, here and now, and because it demonstrated what might be possible, universally, in a time to come.”

“Some of us were waving copies of Mao’s Little Red Book; we all should have been clutching copies of the Old Testament.”

“Satan glorified political power for its own sake. He defended the socio-economic status quo…Jesus’ mother proclaimed a political and economic revolution...”

“God is good because he’s good, not just because he’s God.”

“Sir, you are quite simply insane. We know exactly what holds our universe together; it is electromagnetism, gravity, and the strong force…not Christ.”

”A heretical state is not a bad state…A heretical state is not a state at all. There are no bad states. There are only states and pseudo-states.”

“Fukuyama proclaimed ‘The End of History’ with a celebratory flourish. But be careful what you celebrate!”

“The Gospel of Mark is no biography…It’s a call to action, a manifesto, a How to manual for non-violent guerilla warriors everywhere, 1st century…or 21st.”