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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.