But the life that no longer trust another human being and no longer forms ties to the political community is not a human life any longer.

I do think there's a lot of bad writing, and I worry about that in philosophy. I worry about it even more in literary studies, but I wouldn't blame it on any one methodology.

After all, the nation is not just an entity. It's a story. It's a story of what's salient, what brought us together, what we are willing to live and die for.

Today, I think, the state of philosophizing about democracy is very healthy. It bridges political science and philosophy, as it should.

People don't just want to feel satisfied. They actually want to act.

Singapore and China, which don't want to encourage democratic citizenship, are expanding their humanities curricula. These reforms are all about developing a culture of innovation and entrepreneurship.

I think the imagination helps us move out of the purely oppositional mentality and see the world in a richer and more variegated way.