She notes that rejection of religion has not reigned in the utopia of reason as the New Atheists hoped. All that happened was that the religious instinct was unconsciously transferred to the political realms. Having zealot-level convictions for your political aims without the accompanying humility (believing in a higher power), things tend to get n... See more

Our agency is getting big. That’s something to be happy about. But it’s something to worry about, too, and I don’t mind telling you I’m damned worried. I’m worried that we’re going to fall into the trap of bigness, that we’re going to worship techniques instead of substance, that we’re going to follow history instead of making it, that we’re going ... See more

there is a scale of activity and experience appropriate to the human animal and things tend to go well for us when we mind it.