One can't understand the Christian Right and similar movements unless one sees them as reactive - they're reacting to what they call secular humanism.

So I think one can say on empirical grounds - not because of some philosophical principle - that you can't have democracy unless you have a market economy.

Even if one is interested only in one's own society, which is one's prerogative, one can understand that society much better by comparing it with others.

A Christian has no right being in a fight unless it's a spiritual fight.

Everyone doesn’t need to have the same beliefs, we just need to start believing in everyone.

The past is malleable and flexible, changing as our recollection interprets and re-explains what has happened.