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

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

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.

Public education is so important - resisting privatization and charterization, high-stakes testing, and defunding. It's important for New York, but it's also important for the country.

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.

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

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.