Barack Obama has domesticated the left in such a way that we feel as if we have no alternative but him...I refuse to accept that.

When you are fundamentally committed to something that is right, you just decide to go down fighting. Period.

White supremacy is so deep-seated that it's hard to see it eliminated. But we could definitely push it back.

Hey, you got something going here. I think we've got a chance for some progressive policy that actually focuses on poor and working people.

I'm not a pacifist at all; I think there is a notion of "just war" that can be persuasively argued. I think in the face of Nazis, in the face of apartheid, that I would have joined those armies. But that's the last, last resort.

Truth is fine. Absolutely.

Philosophy is in fact a quest for wisdom based in sophia; that quest for wisdom has everything to do with a love of wisdom.