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

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

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

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

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

One of the most dangerous things about Fox News isn't that it's right wing but that it's nihilistic. It takes away the capacity to believe in politics.