TED was simply wonderful, an intellectual spa, a 21st-century Chataqua, superb and singular.

- Kurt Andersen

Because we don't know that much about what has happened before, it's useful. But either we will recover and progress, or the alternative is that it's…

- Kurt Andersen

If partisanship makes us abandon intellectual honesty, if we oppose what our opponents say or do simply because they are the ones saying or doing it,…

- Kurt Andersen

Maybe the reality-based fractions of red and blue America are reaching a sort of consensus: Just as Republicans are beginning to get why George Bush …

- Kurt Andersen

I'm comparing Americans to international peers in terms of GDP, educational system - the sort of benchmarks we used to designate a so-called develope…

- Kurt Andersen

I am proud to be American. We wouldn't have our big dreams without this quality, but if we can't agree on the shape of reality, when a White House, o…

- Kurt Andersen