In antihistory, time is an illusion.

When carrying a concealed weapon for self-defense is understood NOT as a failure of civil society, to be mourned, but as an act of citizenship, to be vaunted, there is little civilian life left.

Nineteenth-century grass-roots populism made twentieth-century progressivism possible.

The study of history requires investigation, imagination, empathy, and respect. Reverence just doesnt enter into it.

History is a long and endlessly interesting argument, where evidence is everything and storytelling is everything else.

Why do beautiful women love ugly men?

Mainly, the more faddish and newer stages of life are really just marketing schemes. Tweenhood. The young old. The quarter-life crisis.

Germ theory, which secularized infectious disease, had a side effect: it sacralized epidemiology.

Stages of life are artifacts. Adolescence is a useful contrivance, midlife is a moving target, senior citizens are an interest group, and tweenhood is just plain made up.

In kindergarten, you can learn how to be a citizen of the world.

Folklore used to be passed by word of mouth, from one generation to the next; thats what makes it folklore, as opposed to, say, history, which is written down and stored in an archive.

Success is all about persistence and doing the right thing for the long term.

Voter fraud does just barely exist, while racism, according to the Supreme Court, is a thing of the past.

Public radio is alive and kicking, it always has been

A surprising amount of my jokes sound very implausible but are true.

Soviet people are better off materially and richer spiritually.

Photography knows how to authenticate its misrepresentations.

When you reach for the stars, you lose blood and tears. That's something you should remember.

I was so obsessed with football that you could say I was taking the goal home with me at night. And then one day the system fell apart.

He'll take some pleasure from that, Brian Carey. He and Steve Bull have been having it off all afternoon.

Steve Jobs was a visionary in the technology and telecom community. His contributions to innovating communications have forever changed our industry and our lives. He will be greatly missed.