Tyranny is abhorrent, freedom benefits all, whereas violence benefits no one for long.

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

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.

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.

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

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.