The mobilisation which Bush has been able to perform since 11 September 2001 has to be fought - at least by Americans - in the name of a wise, honourable and democratic patriotism.

My position is not that John Kerry is either Jesus Christ or the prophet Mohammad. My position is that John Kerry is the possibility of restarting politics.

We may repeat the awful revolutionary history of the 20th century because of the vulnerability of social movements to demagoguery.

If the Bible is a creation myth, it is an amorphous confusing one

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

America is not just 'a nation with the soul of a church,' as G.K. Chesterton wrote in 1992: it is a nation with the mind of a crusade

I don't think anyone in the media thinks strategically about society.