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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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