When the U.S. government is serious about doing something that's complicated and difficult, it can do it.

Everyone knows, or has strongly suspected, that capital theory is difficult.

If allowed to continue, this process will turn the United States into a declining, unfair society with an impoverished, angry, uneducated population under the control of a small, ultrawealthy elite. Such a society would be not only immoral but also eventually unstable, dangerously ripe for religious and political extremism.

When the financial crisis arrived, it seemed to me that this was something I had to make a movie about.

This whole force is utterly demoralized by victory. There seems to be neither head nor tail.

WikiLeaks combines several of my prior interests in technology, policy questions, and journalism.

A fierce and sentimental addiction to forms makes us shudder at change. It is much easier to say that the system is all right-only the people need to be improved.