Democrats in environmental agencies tend to be more sensitive to environmental harm. And Republicans tend to be more sensitive to business harm.

I've come to think that flourishing consists of putting yourself in situations in which you lose self-consciousness and become fused with other people, experiences, or tasks.

One of the frustrations about the modern world is that we don't even have a good vocabulary to describe our state. The word sentiment sounds mushy. [...] Sentiment is not mushy.

When a president speaks that usually means a lot.

Civility is the natural state for people who know how limited their own individual powers are and know, too, that they need the conversation.

Politics is based on social identity, and so, again, there is going to be differences between rural and urban and between left and right.

Things that change history tend to be organized.