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.

Dreams are evidence that we are creatures who produce more meaning than we can ourselves understand.

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

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.

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

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.

Paradoxically, the problems of politics often arise not in the form of a problem of scarcity, but as one of abundance.