I tend to think that knowledge is preceded by power instead of the other way around.

Creativity is essential to any kind of joyful living. Sometimes I act, sometimes I draw, I paint, I write poems. I can't imagine living without it.

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.

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. 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 about people and events in terms of archetypes a lot.

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

There's a tendency, especially among academics, to see politics as deeply dirty and deeply egotistical.