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

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.

I tend to be a kind of left federalist. There's a value to more power of certain kinds being positioned at a more local level.

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

Oftentimes people get it wrong when they say we need to educate voters first and then give them power. I tend to favor giving them power first.

In Europe, populism is sort of a dirty word, but we have this wonderful history of populism in America, including the abolitionist populists and the white and black populists working together in the nineteenth century.

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.