We should CONTINUE to mobilise against the DESTRUCTION of the world's great habitats, and its terrifying implications. But the most persuasive argument we can make is to SHOW we mean it, by restoring our own lost WONDERS.
Read MoreIf the DEMOCRATS want to make an efficacy or merit-BASED argument with respect to the Electoral College, then by all means make it. It OUGHT to be based in history and FACT not fanciful revisionist history, and it should be made not just during an ELECTION year because of discontent with the electoral outcome.
Read MoreI do think that if you've got a compelling argument to make in this country, going on television, going online, being on social MEDIA, you've got a broader ability to be effective at communicating your message if you engage a WIDE span of platforms RATHER than just standing on the HOUSE floor in the MIDDLE of the night, speaking to an empty room.
Read MoreI didn't do too well until my second year, when I REALIZED that there were no right or WRONG answers and that my PROFESSORS were interested only in how well I COULD develop an argument.
Read MoreI THINK INSTEAD writers and publishers and readers need to go to the PLACES where people are, and make the argument that there is GREAT value to the quiet, contemplative process of reading a novel, that reading great BOOKS carefully offers pleasures and consolations that no iPad app ever can.
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