People think that the politician is just part of a system, and whether they're lying or not doesn't matter.

I'm not from the arts, I'm a law professor. But I think we need more poetry in politics.

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.

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. So the temptations of social media lead to some dissonance.

There are some libertarians who are really anarchists, but others are more concerned about the distant relationship between themselves and power. They mistakenly think they want to get rid of government when instead they might just want to have greater access to power.

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

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?"