Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It's the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And that someone else's pain is as meaningful as your own.
Politics in America is the binding secular religion.
The flood of money that gushes into politics today is a pollution of democracy.
If you make a living if you earn your own money you're free - however free...
Quality in a classical Greek sense is how to live with grace and intelligence...
Power in America today is control of the means of communication.