Some fine day, Democrats may figure out how to get on the right side of the value divide - how to define America as a place of the common good and not a playground of the strong.

Today's global justice movement may be the biggest, most diverse and energetic in history.

So American culture is itself a hybrid and lends itself to use in other people's hybrids.

Some versions of patriotism come close to the tribal, which we all want to surpass, and some don’t.

Who of us does not recognize that the life we live, however larded with brave talk about values and thought and ideals, is not actually a life dedicated to immersion in the endless torrent of images, songs, sounds and stories?

I am concerned about how to reverse the process by which a fundamentalist right and a corporate elite were able to seize power in the United States.

Like Americans, people outside America want fun, want an emotional compensation for the utilitarianism and calculation that mark the rest of their lives.