Tyranny is abhorrent, freedom benefits all, whereas violence benefits no one for long.
I hold to the idea that civility, understood as the willingness to engage in public discourse, is the first virtue of citizens.
Our desires are never wholly transparent, even to ourselves.
Friendship requires a leap, not of faith but of regard.
If anyone is tweeting right now, I'm not pulling a knife on David Cronenberg!
Paradoxically, the problems of politics often arise not in the form of a problem of scarcity, but as one of abundance.