I think students should know something about religion as a historical phenomenon, in the same way that they should know something about socialism and... →
Steven Pinker
People have long assumed that violence is necessary for political change. Rulers never cede power voluntarily, the argument goes, so progressives... →
Why are empirical questions about how the mind works so weighted down with political and moral and emotional baggage?
By exploring the political and moral colorings of discoveries about what makes us tick, we can have a more honest science and a less fearful... →
As many political writers have pointed out, commitment to political equality is not an empirical claim that people are clones.
In the 1970s, many intellectuals had become political radicals. Marxism was correct, liberalism was for wimps, and Marx had pronounced that 'the... →
I don't intend to simply go away and write my plays and be a good boy. I intend to remain an independent and political intelligence in my own... →
Harold Pinter
My career divides in two: before and after 9/11. In the first part I was trying to show that Islam is relevant to political concerns. If you want to... →
Daniel Pipes
There will be no end to the troubles of states, or of humanity itself, till philosophers become kings in this world, or till those we now call kings... →
Plato
For the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the whole state; since styles of music are never disturbed without... →