Political life loves some volatility.

Ideas come and go, stories stay.

Meditation is a way to be narcissistic without hurting anyone

Forecasting by bureaucrats tends to be used for anxiety relief rather than for adequate policy making.

We cannot truly plan, because we do not understand the future-but this is not necessarily a bad news. We could plan while bearing in mind such limitations. It just takes guts.

I'm in favour of religion as a tamer of arrogance. For a Greek Orthodox, the idea of God as creator outside the human is not God in God's terms. My God isn't the God of George Bush.

In poor countries, officials receive explicit bribes; in D.C. they get the sophisticated, implicit, unspoken promise to work for large corporations