Take, for example, there is a right-wing populist uprising. It's very common, even on the left, to just ridicule them, but that's not the right reaction. If you look at those people and listen to them on talk radio, these are people with real grievances.

Thomas Jefferson, the leading Enlightenment figure in the United States, along with Benjamin Franklin, who took exactly the same view, argued that dependence will lead to "subservience and venality", and will "suffocate the germs of virtue". And remember, by dependence he meant wage labor, which was considered an abomination under classical liberal principles.

Tough love is just the right phrase: love for the rich and privileged, tough for everyone else.

Sooner or later, jihadist-style terror and WMD are going to come together and the consequences could be horrendous.

The escalation to attack undefended civilian targets is just a classic illustration of terrorism.

Nothing is more inspiring to see how poor and suffering people, living under conditions incomparably worse than we endure, continue quietly and unpretentiously with courageous and committed struggle for justice and dignity.

The more privilege you have, the more opportunity you have. The more opportunity you have, the more responsibility you have.