Timothy Noah

Spoken language's elaborate rhythms and inflections convey more meaning per word than the printed word.

Customer service, they say, is dead. Actually, it isn't. It's just hiding behind a call center in Manila.

If you want to slow medical inflation in the private sector, it makes sense to expand the government's investment in private health care.

We define ourselves as intelligent. That's odd, because we're doing the definition - We're creating our own definition and saying, 'We are intelligent!'

I believe that if you want to fight inequality you have to do it starting at infancy.

As long as there are people who are not happy with their lot in life, as long as the United States is perceived to somehow be the cause of this unhappiness, there will be terrorism.