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You have to get involved.

You can’t just be cynical and be a journalist.

Lehrer’s organization in PBS is a Quaker monarchy.

Because of the Depression and World War II, Lehrer grew up not taking anything for granted.

Sam Harris on the absence of neuroses.

Technology is furthering environmental consciousness

Too much attachment to myth worries Sam Harris.

Again this year, the New Atheist is giving up God.

Sam Harris refutes the notion of an intelligent creator.

Maybe God spoke in metaphor.

Morality is one of the greatest challenges for modernity.

Religion does not teach grief, Harris says.

Every benign religion, every religion that’s actually helping somebody sometimes could be functioning like a placebo. It could be totally barren of content and still useful in certain circumstances.

Secular fundamentalism is a play on words.

Fighting ignorance.

We are misled by the very term “religion,” argues Sam Harris. Religion was simply the discourse humans used when all causes in the universe were opaque.

Converging on a common project in a non-divisive, something religion does infrequently.

Harris believes that certainty is a false goal.

Harris believes faith is healthy and necessary.

9/11 sparked Harris’s interest in religion, and his journey to atheism.

Making fatherhood easier.

“Are you happy?” is a good place to start, reflects Jason Kottke.

People are so much more connected than they used to be.

Kottke is a big Errol Morris fan.

Kottke says he is a pessimistic optimist.

Kottke wants the political process to change.

Politics are still shut off from reality, Kottke says.

They will, Kottke says, but they’ll just be different.

Go and explore, Kottke says.

Encouraging the dilettantes is one unfortunate side effect of the information age.