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

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.

Friendship requires a leap, not of faith but of regard.

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

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

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.

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