I Actually Have Great Hopes For The

I Am An Adult; Deliberately Naïve, Dewy-eyed Optimism Is Not The Proper Posture For A Responsible Adult, Is It?

The World Is A Crazy, Beautiful, Ugly Complicated Place, And It Keeps Moving On From Crisis To Strangeness To Beauty To Weirdness To Tragedy. The Caravan Keeps Moving On, And The Job Of The Longform Writer Or Filmmaker Or Radio Broadcaster Is To Stop - Is To Pause - And When The Caravan Goes Away, That's When This Stuff Comes.

I Think The Electoral College Is An Absurd 18th-century Construct. But That Is The Law.

The Communist Party Apparatus Was The Most Gigantic Mafia The World Has Ever Known.

There Are Days When You Might Enjoy Being An Editor A Little Less, Due To One Crisis Or Another. It Is Absolutely Vital, To Me, In A Period Of Technological Evolution And Sometimes Financial Stress That I And My Colleagues Not Only Put Out A Fantastic Magazine And Web Site And All The Rest, But Also That We Are Smart Enough About What We Are Doing.