War is smaller in scale than in recent memory, but it is far more ambiguous, intractable, and nasty. Money flows more quickly than ever, but it is still somehow manages to gather and puddle in certain places, for certain people rather then others.

We don't know what the future will bring, but that's because we are ever in the process of creating it, not because it is an alien force to which we have to submit.

Politics is rather the creation of the best possible polity out of the deep inner needs of its citizenry - who are only some of its members.

If anyone is tweeting right now, I'm not pulling a knife on David Cronenberg!

We are capitalism made flesh.

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.