It is a mania shared by philosophers of all ages to deny what exists and to explain what does not exist.

When Britain and the U.S. invaded Iraq, it was with the reasonable expectation that it was going to increase the threat of terror, as it has.

You wouldn't believe the kind of hate mail I get about my work on irregular verbs.

When it comes to brains, size matters. It's not all that matters, of course. Whales and dolphins have brains that are larger than humans', but few of the flippered and fluked set win tenure at Stanford. Our brains are the largest in proportion to body size, and they're also highly sophisticated.

The Democrats have pretty much given up on the white working class. That would require a commitment to economic issues, and that's not their concern.