Adam Smith

My real fear is not so much that the Internet makes us bad readers, but that it makes us bad writers.

We ought to see localism not as an accomplice to the tribalism that’s everywhere rising, but as an antidote to it.

A whole-hog way of seeing.

I wanted living color, an axe to break the frozen sea.

"I don't particularly call myself an environmentalist. I love the Pinchot National Forest. My specific woods, the land that my family is from..."

The politics of Jesus are “brutally modest.” “Jesus’ life seems to have been mostly one of local, familial labor and relations, carried out in the compass of a small town…

The basic principle of education is that you can’t learn anything you don’t want to learn

Now – every moment, but now especially, this moment in history – is the time not to watch but to act.

I believe in personal responsibility; insurance companies believe in impersonal responsibility.

You don’t have to be normal. You don’t have to be weird. You just have to be a person – which is a moral ideal, not a fact of nature…

That’s the great cultural task now: to relearn this old language, to keep it from dying out, to nurture it and refine and expand it, to develop new idioms and…

To fight a culture war justly is to be confident that your arguments have a reasonable chance of success; but this means that to fight justly is not only about…