Introduction
Statement on Liberal Education
Who Are You and What Are You Doing Here? A Word to the Incoming Class
The Allegory of the Cave
The Story of Daedalus and Icarus
The Culture of Contempt
Strangers
From Safe Spaces to Brave Spaces
Kindly Inquisitors, Revisited
Lost Races of Science Fiction
The Attention Merchants
The Fine Art of Baloney Detection
Ignorance: How it Drives Science
The Dialectic of Theology and Life, or Speaking the Truth
Veil
The Learning Curve
How We Listen
We Are All Bound Up Together
The Fly
The Evolution of Human Science
O Me! O Life!
Afterimages
Consider the Lobster