The Left, in a general sense, is very much atomized. We live in highly atomized societies. People are pretty much alone; it's you and your iPad.

The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum.

I don't think that the United States cares. They just assume that North Korea will soon have nuclear weapons.

On intervention under the UN framework, I think that sometimes that's legitimate, in fact even helpful.

Democratic societies can't force people. Therefore they have to control what they think.

Latin America is all moving to the left, from Venezuela to Argentina with rare exceptions, but there's a good left and a bad left.

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.