Take Google - I can use it, you can use it, anyone else can use it, but we all know its designed so that private power can influence significantly how you access it.

History records endless struggles to enlarge those realms, inspiring ones; it also records painful reversals and setbacks.

A number of analysts have observed that although bin Laden was finally killed, he won some major successes in his war against the U.S.

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

You cannot control your own population by force, but it can be distracted by consumption.

The basic principle, rarely violated, is that what conflicts with the requirements of power and privilege does not exist.

It's necessary to address the concerns and beliefs of those who are taken in by the fraud, or who don't recognize the nature and significance of the issues for other reasons. If by philosophy we mean reasoned and thoughtful analysis, then it can address the moment, though not by confronting the "alternative facts" but by analyzing and clarifying what is at stake, whatever the issue is. Beyond that, what is needed is action: urgent and dedicated, in the many ways that are open to us.