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.

You can't just provide power, you also need public education.

People respond to political characters in archetypal ways. A fun game is to think of a politician and ask, "Which god is that? Are they like Aries? Are they like Athena?"

I think that most people have deeply creative sensibilities.

People think that the politician is just part of a system, and whether they're lying or not doesn't matter.

There is a long American tradition of suspicion of concentrated economic power because of its tendency to corrupt government and turn it from a democracy into a plutocracy.

I tend to be a kind of left federalist. There's a value to more power of certain kinds being positioned at a more local level.