Politics is that rare sport where the amateur contest is actually more interesting than the professional.

There's no reason for the electors to overrule the popular choice.

So uncritically do we accept the idea of property in culture that we don't even question when the control of that property removes our ability, as a people, to develop our culture democratically.

Some blame the drug companies. I don't. They are corporations. Their managers are ordered by law to make money for the corporation. They push a certain patent policy not because of ideals,but because it is the policy that makes them the most money. And it only makes them the most money because of a certain corruption within our political system-a corruption the drug companies are certainly not responsible for. The corruption is our own politicians' failure of integrity.

Everybody's vote should count equally in the United States.

Law and technology produce, together, a kind of regulation of creativity we've not seen before.

All around us are the consequences of the most significant technological, and hence cultural, revolution in generations.