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

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

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.

I hold to the idea that civility, understood as the willingness to engage in public discourse, is the first virtue of citizens.

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?

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.