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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

Neiman's book is written with considerable flair, as many critics have already noted, but it possesses a far rarer and more valuable quality: moral seriousness. Her argument builds a powerful emotional force, a sense of deep inevitability. . . . It is not often that a work of such dark conclusions has felt so hopeful and brave.