There must be engagement: there must be protest.

Electrical fire and the fire of greed kindle economies. In that flux, nations become digitized commodities on stock-exchange floors and on investors' rating screens. A country becomes a product to be rated for its obedience to paying of deficits and debts.

There is, it seems, an unbridgeable chasm between the concerns of a Sri Aurobindo and a Pat Robertson.

Followers of another political party tell us that we will strengthen ourselves by ignoring our history, our traditions, our mythologies, our culture and vision, and by following the American way.

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

Democracies should be a delirium of choices - more options, not fewer; more avenues to travel, not fewer.

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