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

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?".

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.

Because jurors have an extraordinary amount of power over the situation and of the people and the story in front of them, they tend to pay pretty intense attention to what's happening.

I think that most people have deeply creative sensibilities.

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

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.