Ethan Miller

“The world may be on the brink of another pandemic. All countries will be affected. Widespread illness will occur. Medical supplies will be inadequate. Large numbers of deaths will occur. Economic and social disruption will be great.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Eating Animals

“But that’s just me. Others see things differently. My point here is just that the failure of people to attend to data in the political domain does not reflect a limitation in their capacity for reason. It reflects how most people make sense of politics. They don’t care about truth because, for them, it’s not really about truth.”
― Paul Bloom, Against Empathy: The Case for Rational Compassion – How Emotion Undermines Morality, Justice, and Good Policy

“We are perilously close to losing an economy and a democracy that are meant to work for everyone and to replacing them with an economy and a government that will exist mainly for a few wealthy and powerful people.”
― Robert B. Reich, Beyond Outrage (Expanded Edition): What has gone wrong with our economy and our democracy, and how to fix it

“And then but so what’s the difference between tennis and suicide, life and death, the game and its own end?”
― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest