No kid graduating in a political science class in Canada should not understand what's happened to income inequality since the 1970s, period. And then, what do we do about it? It's the biggest problem out there, in all western liberal societies.

...our species is one, and each of the individuals who compose it are entitled to equal moral consideration.

You can't get back to power by defining your project in negative terms. But it helps to have somebody in office who represents the opposite of what you believe.

Family traditions are more than arguments with the dead, more than collections of family letters you try to decipher. A tradition is also a channel of memory through which fierce and unrequited longings surge, longings that define and shape a whole life.

Inequality is not just an issue between individuals, between classes, between regions. It's between urban and rural.

There's intense national feeling in America that could be called patriotism.

There's a financial cost, but the only costs that are ever real are the costs of our soldiers.