Sublime

It’s very rewarding to show them not necessarily that their beliefs are wrong, but that they haven’t defended them very well, haven’t understood their underlying logic, haven’t grasped the best ways to commend their views to skeptical Others.

To succeed in today's media environment, “political leaders must appear as accessible, authentic, and relatable,” she argues,

Mill held that truth emerges from an unfettered competition of ideas and that individual character is most improved when allowed to find its own way uncoerced. That vision was insufficient for 20th-century American liberalism.

I am very long on tech-enabled services—technology and products for the everyman and the everywoman. I think San Francisco creates an echo chamber that leads folks to believe that they should build products and services for the people they know and spend time with, their high-income friends. I think there’s a truism to the fact that you build produ

The idea that the health of the elites means the health of a society is diametrically opposed to the leftist insistence that, as Gandhi put it, “A nation’s greatness is measured by how it treats its weakest members.”