There are secrets to our world that only practice can reveal, and no opinion or analysis will ever capture in full. - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Convincing - and confident - disciplines, say, physics, tend to use little statistical backup, while political science and economics, which have never produced anything of note, are full of elaborate statistics and statistical “evidence” (and you know that once you remove the smoke, the evidence is not evidence).

Let me be clear about intolerance against intolerance. The rule is that People (say Salafis) whose platform is EXPLICITLY denying democracy (or free speech) should not use democracy (or free speech) to reach political power.

A good book gets better on the second reading. A great book on the third. Any book not worth rereading isn’t worth reading.