As a school board member, I might have particular views about the ways we might increase the economics curriculum in a local high school, but I'm not sure I should mandate that for the entire country.

Integrity is hard work. I do think the internet makes it harder because of the temptations of performance. You can perform and have integrity, but it's easier just to perform. So the temptations of social media lead to some dissonance.

As a school board member, I might have particular views about the ways we might increase the economics curriculum in a local high school, but I'm not sure I should mandate that for the entire country.

This is what's so hard about our current politics: things poll well, but people don't believe that politicians are telling the truth.

It's a lot harder to push forward things, like energy policy. There's a big dream out there about wind and solar power.

A lot of politics plays at the level of myth, and if you understand that, then you feel like you have access to the secret language of politics.

I'm not from the arts, I'm a law professor. But I think we need more poetry in politics.