Friendship requires a leap, not of faith but of regard. - Mark Kingwell

Politics is rather the creation of the best possible polity out of the deep inner needs of its citizenry - who are only some of its members.

It is only through a devoted attention to the details of objects and faces in the modern urban scene, he argues, that the commodity fetish of capitalism can be effectively dispelled.

War is smaller in scale than in recent memory, but it is far more ambiguous, intractable, and nasty. Money flows more quickly than ever, but it is still somehow manages to gather and puddle in certain places, for certain people rather then others.