But the myth of violent solutions as the ultimate solutions maintains itself in much of popular media.

Now the writing in the head, I definitely do every day, thinking about how I want to phrase something or how I'd like to rephrase something I've already written.

You'd never know that listening to people in the UN but tribalism is the father of racism.

Our job as writers and thinkers in the time is how to bring about the occasions that let people have that first-person experience - or the metaphoric experience that allows them to see human continuity as opposed to total threat, total willingness to do violence.

Big business, for all its lobbying, is often put in line by investigative reporting, public scandals and multi-million-dollar judgments in court against those who put products on the market that are dangerous to their buyers.

Under popular culture's obsession with a naive inclusion, everything is O.K.

Rap actually comes out of punk rock, not black music.