You can't just provide power, you also need public education.

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

You can't just provide power, you also need public education.

If you think art is a competitive forum, then you're going to stop doing it if you're not good. But if it's not competitive, it's something that you'll keep doing.

It's a lot harder to push forward things, like energy policy. There's a big dream out there about wind and solar power.

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.

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.