Laboratory research suggests that how we look and act in the virtual affect our behavior in the real.

Eric Erikson writes that in their search for identity, adolescents need a place of stillness, a place to gather themselves.

When young people are insecure, they find ways to manufacture love tests – personal metrics to reassure themselves.

Children make theories when they are confused or anxious.

When people turn other people into selfobjects, they are trying to turn a person into a kind of spare part.

It's too late to leave the future to the futurists.

Rapture is costly; it usually means you are overlooking consequences.

There is a rich literature on how to break out of quandary thinking. It suggests that sometimes it helps to turn from the abstract to the concrete.

Sometimes a citizenry should not simply "be good". You have to leave space for dissent, real dissent.