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.

Socrates was likewise right that pissing people off is how we first, and maybe best, go about the business of provoking thought.

How doe we create the world we want, rather than a world that just happens to us?

Never before, I suspect, have so many people been so rich to so little purpose.

We tend to think of the problems of globalization and cultural identity as peculiar to our times. In fact they are rooted in ancient problems of civic belonging.

All social space is suffused with political meanings and agendas, the very stones and walls a kind of testament to the ongoing struggles for liberation and justices.

For every apparent gain, in short, we now observe a balancing danger. This is the world we have created.