Dreams are evidence that we are creatures who produce more meaning than we can ourselves understand..

Never before, I suspect, have so many people been so rich to so little purpose..

If you have ever been accused of being rude when you were merely stating the truth, or called a gossip because you like to dwell on other people's ac….

I hold to the idea that civility, understood as the willingness to engage in public discourse, is the first virtue of citizens..

Paradoxically, the problems of politics often arise not in the form of a problem of scarcity, but as one of abundance..

Tyranny is abhorrent, freedom benefits all, whereas violence benefits no one for long..

We tend to think of the problems of globalization and cultural identity as peculiar to our times. In fact they are rooted in ancient problems of civi….

Politics is rather the creation of the best possible polity out of the deep inner needs of its citizenry - who are only some of its members..

We don't know what the future will bring, but that's because we are ever in the process of creating it, not because it is an alien force to which we ….

We are capitalism made flesh..

Ambition is ever tempered by experience. Otherwise, fortune makes fools of us all..

How doe we create the world we want, rather than a world that just happens to us?.

War is smaller in scale than in recent memory, but it is far more ambiguous, intractable, and nasty. Money flows more quickly than ever, but it is st….

Concrete is momentarily unformed matter seeking its natural completion, filling in the last corners of its allowed space, finding a form. It is possi….

Procrastination most often arises from a sense that there is too much to do, and hence no single aspect of the to-do worth doing. . . . Underneath th….

If anyone is tweeting right now, I'm not pulling a knife on David Cronenberg!.

All social space is suffused with political meanings and agendas, the very stones and walls a kind of testament to the ongoing struggles for liberati….

Books, like lives, are always unfinished even when they end, for to write is to struggle with contingency, to impose a certain false order upon the e….

Socrates was likewise right that pissing people off is how we first, and maybe best, go about the business of provoking thought..

Our desires are never wholly transparent, even to ourselves..

Friendship requires a leap, not of faith but of regard..