Always Strive To Excel, But Only On

Philosophers Get Attention Only When They Appear To Be Doing Something Sinister - Corrupting The Youth, Undermining The Foundations Of Civilization, Sneering At All We Hold Dear. The Rest Of The Time Everybody Assumes That They Are Hard At Work Somewhere Down In The Sub-basement, Keeping Those Foundations In Good Repair. Nobody Much Cares What Brand Of Intellectual Duct Tape Is Being Used.

I Think You Can Have A Left That Isn't Culturally Conservative Talking About Lunch-bucket Issues.

Every Government, Left Or Right, Always Engages In Moral Crusades. What Else Are They Supposed To Do? Especially When They Make War; Any War Has To Be A Moral Crusade.

The Most Important Advance That The West Has Yet Made Is To Develop A Secularist Moral Tradition

There Are Credentials For Admission To Our Democratic Society [...]. You Have To Be Educated In Order To Be A Participant In Our Conversation So We Are Going To Go Right On Trying To Discredit You In The Eyes Of Your Children, Trying To Strip Your Fundamentalist Religious Community Of Dignity, Trying To Make Your Views Seem Silly Rather Than Discussable. We Are Not So Inclusivist As To Tolerate Intolerance Such As Yours.