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

New York City is one of the most vulnerable cities in the world to climate change, so I see Keystone as the central threat to New York.

Having more candidates come with a creative and artistic sensibility would actually bring more people out to vote.

There is a long American tradition of suspicion of concentrated economic power because of its tendency to corrupt government and turn it from a democracy into a plutocracy.

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.

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?".

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