Again, conventional Catholicism does not much appeal to me.

I've been asked a lot for my view on American health care. Well, 'it would be a good idea,' to quote Gandhi.

We have to design a health delivery system by actually talking to people and asking, 'What would make this service better for you?' As soon as you start asking, you get a flood of answers.

I feel it's part of my job to make the problems of the poor compelling.

Everybody should be interested in access to primary and secondary education for everybody.

There is nothing wrong with underlining personal agency, but there is something unfair about using personal responsibility as a basis for assigning blame while simultaneously denying those who are being blamed the opportunity to exert agency in their lives

But as for activism, my parents did what they could, given the constraints, but were never involved in the causes I think of when I think of activists.