Right now, we have no possibility of politics because we have a one-party state.

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.

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

Human inertia makes the everyday environment, the furniture, as it were, appear to be a given.

To win power anywhere you have to convince people that you can do something for them.

There is a fuzzy but real distinction that can and I believe should be made, between patriotism, which is attachment to a way of life, and nationalism, which is the insistence that your way of life deserves to rule over other ways of life.

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