We remake the world through our technologies, and these in turn remake and extend us, in ever spiraling lattices of complexity. McLuhan uncannily foresaw the future, where electronic technology would shape and expand cultures and societies into a global membrane of communications.

If you make things sound inoffensively obvious, then it is likely that no one will listen.

The origin of corruption in politics is surely in the thought that you are the bearer of ultimate virtue.

Here I find a puzzle of great beauty: Canada works well in practice, but just doesn't work out in theory.

A just society will appear less spectacular, and less clearly defined, than a society with totalitarian leadership, theocratic goals.

May the ability to see many points view keep us gentle.

We become slaves the moment we hand the keys to the definition of reality entirely over to someone else, whether it is a business, an economic theory, a political party, the White House, Newsworld or CNN.