If words fall into disrepair, what will substitute? They are all we have

Today, neither Left nor Right can find their footing.

If active or concerned citizens forfeit politics, they thereby abandon their society to its most mediocre and venal public servants

Love consists in leaving the loved one space to be themselves while providing the security within which that self may flourish.

Apparently, the line you take on Israel trumps everything else in life.

I don't believe that one should have one-size-fits-all moral rules for international political action.

There were various different keys in which European history had tended to be written. One is the lyrical key, the idea that somehow, in Bretton-Woods in 1945, a bunch of well-intentioned men got together and said, "This can't go on; let's build a European Union." And it just wasn't like that.