I think President Barack Obama has been an extraordinarily successful president, and that this period will record that with a bunch of exclamation po….

How do things, whether they are movies, or plays, Hamilton, or people, ideas - how do they become transformative or iconic? That is in some ways what….

A system of limitless individual choices, with respect to communications, is not necessarily in the interest of citizenship and self-government..

I talked to George Lucas once, not about Star Wars. Everyone wants to talk to him about Star Wars, and I didn't want to be one of those people. In pe….

I have argued in favor of a reformulation of First Amendment law. The overriding goal of the reformulation is to reinvigorate processes of democratic….

It's very common to say that Star Wars in the late '70s, that was kind of perfect for Cold War culture and the aftermath of Vietnam in the '60s to ha….

There is no reason to believe that in the face of statutory ambiguity, the meaning of federal law should be settled by the inclinations and predispos….

I'm also a big Bob Dylan fan. The songs on The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan - which is one of his best early albums - they grow out of some of his difficul….

The middle class is not doing well, and trade policy might have something to do with that, and so someone who is going to be fixated on those things,….

Sometimes, the word 'voluntary' is a little complicated..

The sky is always falling or the sky is always bright. In some ways, this is really morning in America and we don't see it. People are living longer,….

Whatever your gender, you can be a Star Wars fan. Of course I knew it from life before, but the core of enthusiastic female fans is a testimony to th….

Donald Trump and Senator Cruz have occasional Manichean tendencies..

Catholicism is a wide tent in terms of political and legal positions. We could have nine Catholics on the Supreme Court and a great deal of diversity….

My role in the government was not to think about narratives and consistency with narratives, but think of the human consequences of rules..

I'll tell you an explanation that I find commonly overrated and speculative in the extreme: the idea that things that succeed in popular culture do t….

On reflection, some things do super well because they hit with the time. Some things do super well because they are able to activate a kind of echo c….

We might have new issues involving information technology for example, or new questions arising out of the war on terror, or new issues arising from ….

Star Wars may be kind of a cartoon, but the original trilogy depicts a political paralysis which breeds an interest in a strong leader who will make ….

I dealt with people with diverse political views. If you find people who are your political opponents, and talk to them for an hour, chances are you'….

So, I subscribe to the following reading: Star Wars is an essentially Christian tale..