I think a lot of the reason people are attracted to the Keystone pipeline is because at least we're doing something. There's a fear that society will collapse if it's not acting. To contrast those actions with other actions is important in making it feel plausible. Maybe we must have the size of the dream meet the size of the threat.

There are some libertarians who are really anarchists, but others are more concerned about the distant relationship between themselves and power. They mistakenly think they want to get rid of government when instead they might just want to have greater access to power.

In Europe, populism is sort of a dirty word, but we have this wonderful history of populism in America, including the abolitionist populists and the white and black populists working together in the nineteenth century.

What I see increasingly is that companies are playing political roles. We should actually have our research and our laws map that.

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.

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

What happens in New York affects national policy in very significant ways.