There is never a reason to lose hope. Jesus says: “I am with you until the end of the world.
Religious faith is an important aspect of American culture and a fact of American political life.
I'm concerned about the survival, historically, of constitutional democracy.
I have tried to set forth a theory that enables us to understand and to assess these feelings about the primacy of justice. Justice as fairness is the outcome: it articulates these opinions and supports their general tendency.
An intolerant sect has no right to complain when it is denied an equal liberty. . . . A person's right to complain is limited to principles he acknowledges himself.
We must choose for others as we have reason to believe they would choose for themselves if they were at the age of reason and deciding rationally.
There are two kinds of comprehensive doctrines, religious and secular. Those of religious faith will say I give a veiled argument for secularism, and the latter will say I give a veiled argument for religion. I deny both. Each side presumes the basic ideas of constitutional democracy, so my suggestion is that we can make our political arguments in terms of public reason. Then we stand on common ground. That's how we can understand each other and cooperate.
The big question is: When will the term structure of interest rates change? That's the question to be worried about.
I would rather eat my own testicles than reform The Smiths, and that's saying something for a vegetarian.
There is no history of mankind, there is only an indefinite number of histories of all kinds of aspects of human life.
We should do an Adorno reading on Skrillex and vodka sales in Vegas. It's definitely interesting. What's interesting in that music for me is the harmonic density in some crazy melodic line that sounds like some Michael Bay film eating itself. Which I enjoy in the same way I'll watch a cracked up Hollywood movie. Yet rhythmically, I guess that music just funnels more into predictable cash outcomes.