It's no longer an exaggeration to say that middle-class Americans are an endangered species.

Life is a dance between making it happen and letting it happen.

In theory we are all equal before the law. In practice, there are overwhelming privileges that come with winning the birth lottery.

Increasingly, staying in the middle class - let alone aspiring to become middle class - is becoming a game of chance.

I have one piece of advice for you: sleep your way to the top.

The only tool we have to fix the problems of this country - the democratic process - is itself broken. Which is why nothing will fundamentally change until we solve the problem of money in politics.

Our current obsession with creativity is the result of our continued striving for immortality in an era when most people no longer believe in an afterlife.