I'm a dog person; I've had dogs all my life.
We want capitalism and market forces to be the slave of democracy rather than the opposite.
It's not Utopian to believe that we can create a global registry of financial assets so we know who owns what in different countries.
Democracy will never be supplanted by a republic of experts—and that is a very good thing.
Das Kapital, I think, is very difficult to read, and for me, it was not very influential.
We know too little about global wealth dynamics, so we need international transmission of bank information.
When the rate of return on capital exceeds the rate of growth of output and income, as it did in the nineteenth century and seems quite likely to do again in the twenty-first, capitalism automatically generates arbitrary and unsustainable inequalities that radically undermine the meritocratic values on which democratic societies are based.
The problem isn't that Johnny can't read. The problem isn't even that Johnny can't think. The problem is that Johnny doesn't know what thinking is; he confuses it with feeling.
Did you ever wonder if the person in the puddle is real, and you're just a reflection of him?
These people are artists. These people are musicians. They're taking it out and trying to express it that way.
A compelling and important story of First Word War Scotland, a time when women redefined the word hope as the world was losing its innocence. Andrea MacPherson writes beautifully, balancing the lives of her characters between history and the poetry of gesture, secrets and love.