Sure, I've often been misrepresented - anyone frequently quoted has this experience.

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?

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.

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

My business is the analytical framework.

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.

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