Ken Mack

“I am interested in justice, not the law. There is an unfortunate difference.”
― Peter O'Donnell

“Privacy was a modern fixation, I said, and distinctly American. For most of human history we accepted that our lives were being watched, listened to, supervened upon by gods and spirits—not all of them benign, either.”
― Meghan O'Gieblyn, God, Human, Animal, Machine: Technology, Metaphor, and the Search for Meaning

“The news, according to dozens of studies, is a mental health hazard.”
― Rutger Bregman, Humankind: A Hopeful History

“Like all too many dictators, Cahokia’s rulers focused on maintaining their hold over the people, paying little attention to external reality. By 1350 A.D. the city was almost empty. Never again would such a large Indian community exist north of Mexico.”
― Charles C. Mann, 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus