I think it's important for Americans to try to understand each other a little better.

Globalization looked like it was going to answer all the economic questions of class. Turned out not to be the case.

If Hillary Clinton becomes president, how is she going to be able to get the country behind her when she seems like a political figure from another era?

A genuine approach to budget cutting - knowing exactly what you're cutting and why, and with what real-life consequences - is beyond my competence, and probably beyond the competence of any politician in America.

People in Congress are willing to shut down the entire government or to make it impossible for a Supreme Court nominee to get a hearing or for routine appointments in the executive branch to go unfilled for years because of a hold placed by a senator.

Inequality saps the will to conceive of ambitious solutions to large collective problems, because those problems no longer seem very collective.

Depended on the soldier. To relax, most of them put on headphones or played video games. Later in the war some of the younger officers began to read a lot of anthropology because they realized that the basic problem was that they were trying to fight a war in a culture they didn't understand. They might have read someone like Margaret Mead.