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.

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

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

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.

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.

Never before, I suspect, have so many people been so rich to so little purpose.