The major challenge for the United States is whether it can become the first outward-looking, continental, nonimperialist power in history.
In politics, as in poetry, it is sometimes true that it is darkest before dawn.
The idea that we should be open to all ideas is very different from the supposition that all ideas are equally valid.
Deflation and secular stagnation are the risks of our time.
The only antidote to dangerous ideas is strong alternatives vigorously advocated.
Contagion has become very much a phenomenon, and it's a phenomenon of globalization.