We’re Going to Need a Bigger Boat: Reflections on Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents

This religious fervor for keeping people in their place is what has allowed caste systems to endure, like a virus in the human heart.

The Age of Fantasy: Competing Visions, Colliding Worlds

I now understand why the fantasy world imagined by Stan Lee offered a more compelling mythological lens than the world imagined by Tolkien did.