Ezra Klein

“If you look at how the federal government spends our money, it’s an insurance conglomerate protected by a large, standing army.”

“Just as youth is wasted on the young, money is wasted on the rich.”

“ ‘Reasoning doesn’t have this function of helping us to get better beliefs and make better decisions,’ said Hugo Mercier, who is a co-author of the journal article, with Dan Sperber. ‘It was a purely social phenomenon. It evolved to help us convince others and to be careful when others try to convince us.’ Truth and accuracy were beside the point.”