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?".

What I see increasingly is that companies are playing political roles. We should actually have our research and our laws map that.

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

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.

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.

I think about people and events in terms of archetypes a lot.

New York City is one of the most vulnerable cities in the world to climate change, so I see Keystone as the central threat to New York.