Sam Harris clairifies his position on torture: Um, like I said, I'm against it...except when I'm not. Understand?

When philosophers go bad. Not many can balance that many angels on that small a pin.

I have long maintained a page on my website where I address various distortions, misunderstandings, and criticisms of my work. I take it to be either a sign of carelessness or masochism on my part that this page is the #1 Google search result for the phrase "response to controversy." Surely, I need not have courted quite so much controversy. But there it is.

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