“As a country, we used to respect knowledge that was earned over knowledge that was cherry picked.”

—Dennis Lehane, Boston Globe,4/1/9/14

In today’s Boston Globe, author Dennis Lehane thinks aloud about the Boston Marathon Bombing, knowledge vs. opinion, intellectual relativism, bad narratives, and his belief that good ideas will prevail. Read his essay here, and get the Globe if you want more of this kind of writing.