moral voices can also become sanctimonious bullies.
America’s education system has become less a ladder of opportunity than a structure to transmit inequity from one generation to the next.
When we have a narrative in mind, we often plug in anecdotes that confirm it.
The greatest problem is not with flat-out white racists, but rather with the far larger number of Americans who believe intellectually in racial equality but are quietly oblivious to injustice around them.
My take is that the optimal approach to food, for health and ethical reasons, may be vegetarianism.
The Golden Temple, Sikhism’s holiest shrine, is in northwestern India near the Pakistani border, and it is a delightful place to contemplate the draw of faith.
During the Arab Spring, I learned all sorts of things from Twitter. I wouldn’t necessarily trust that information, but it gave me ideas about questions to ask. You can really learn things from the wisdom of crowds.
The best escalator to opportunity in America is education.
A basic element of the American dream is equal access to education as the lubricant of social and economic mobility.
Why are fanatics so terrified of girls’ education? Because there’s no force more powerful to transform a society. The greatest threat to extremism isn’t drones firing missiles, but girls reading books.