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.

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

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

If you think art is a competitive forum, then you're going to stop doing it if you're not good. But if it's not competitive, it's something that you'll keep doing.

I think the reason you see so many people dropping out of politics is because there's an anti-poetic strain in modern political discourse.

My current goal is to change the way we think about antitrust and anti-monopoly.

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.