I'm all for experimenting with sortition - randomly selected representative bodies of citizens. But I don't favor direct democracy. We're busy. We have lives. There is reddit. Who has time to work out the right answer to the thousand policy choices a gov't must make all the time?

Creativity builds upon the public domain. The battle that we're fighting now is about whether the public domain will continue to be fed by creative works after their copyright expires. That has been our tradition but that tradition has been perverted in the last generation. We're trying to use the Constitution to reestablish what has always been taken for granted--that the public domain would grow each year with new creative work.

Americans have been selling this view around the world: that progress comes from perfect protection of intellectual property.

Before the monopoly should be permitted, there must be reason to believe it will do some good - for society, and not just for monopoly holders.

We ought to be respecting the principle of equality.

While appropriation art is critical to art, it's an ambiguous art form in the world of the Supreme Court.

Remember the refrain: We always build on the past; the past always tries to stop us. Freedom is about stopping the past, but we have lost that ideal.