How doe we create the world we want, rather than a world that just happens to us?
Socrates was likewise right that pissing people off is how we first, and maybe best, go about the business of provoking thought.
Friendship requires a leap, not of faith but of regard.
Never before, I suspect, have so many people been so rich to so little purpose.
I hold to the idea that civility, understood as the willingness to engage in public discourse, is the first virtue of citizens.
We are capitalism made flesh.