The ability to focus on a single task for an extended period is a talent that’s underappreciated - especially by extroverts, who continue to exercise an unhealthy hegemony over most workplaces.

Rising inequality is a cultural and economic cancer on a lot of different levels.

[Ronald]Reagan and[George W.] Bush were far more radical than other presidents.

There's no liberal equivalent of Donald Trump.

Smart hiring managers in the modern world should be asking, “How long can you concentrate on a task before you have to take a break?” I wonder how many of them do?

If you don’t want your followers to give up in disgust, your inspiration needs to be in the service of goals that are at least attainable.

The younger you are, the more likely you are to have grown up in a (mostly) lead-free environment, and that means you're less likely to have committed a felony or gotten sent to prison.

Because prison sentences in America tend to be long, de-incarceration lags falling crime rates by a fair amount, but eventually it does catch up.

Black crime rates fell more steeply than white crime rates, and now black incarceration is falling more steeply than white incarceration.

Of course the system can be changed. Why would I bother spending 14 years of my life blogging if I didn't believe that?

Promising a revolution that’s simply not feasible really does have the potential to create cynicism when a couple of years go by and it hasn’t happened.

If he does go, the change will be doleful. Suppose he should be absent spring, summer, and autumn: how joyless sunshine and fine days will seem!

Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived lives of the parents.

What happens is that the experience of writers working together and the idea of creative collaboration is so delightful, but it has been relegated to TV.

I don't do flash fiction.

And as he, who with laboring breath has escaped from the deep to the shore, turns to the perilous waters and gazes.

Women are responsible for creating their own roles

The next step has to be the necessary step. It's always to put the immigrant community and the civil rights movement ahead of partisan politics.

I was raised Catholic, and I can get incredibly guilty about mistakes.

Sometimes the British press is maybe a little bit racist.