“There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous.”
“Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it.”
“Action without a name, a 'who' attached to it, is meaningless.”
Fall Conference 2024“Tribalism & Cosmopolitanism”
“I've begun so late, really only in recent years, to truly love the world ... Out of gratitude, I want to call my book on political theories Amor Mundi.”
“It is, in fact, far easier to act under conditions of tyranny than it is to think.”
“Political questions are far too serious to be left to the politicians.”
"I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see."
-John Burroughs