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

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.

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.

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

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

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