To call someone 'anti-American', indeed, to be anti-American, is not just racist, it's a failure of the imagination.

Making bombs will only destroy us. It doesn't matter whether we use them or not. They will destroy us either way.

Soviet-style communism failed, not because it was intrinsically evil, but because it was flawed. It allowed too few people to usurp too much power. Twenty-first century market capitalism, American-style, will fail for the same reasons. Both are edifices constructed by human intelligence, undone by human nature.

The only dream worth having, I told her, is to dream that you will live while you're alive and die only when you're dead.

It is such a supreme folly to believe that nuclear weapons are deadly only if they're used.

And there it was again. Another religion turned against itself. Another edifice constructed by the human mind, decimated by human nature.

Capitalism’s real “grave-diggers” may end up being its own delusional Cardinals, who have turned ideology into faith. Despite their strategic brilliance, they seem to have trouble grasping a simple fact: Capitalism is destroying the planet. The two old tricks that dug it out of past crises-War and Shopping-simply will not work.