For every apparent gain, in short, we now observe a balancing danger. This is the world we have created. - Mark Kingwell

Socrates was likewise right that pissing people off is how we first, and maybe best, go about the business of provoking thought.

We tend to think of the problems of globalization and cultural identity as peculiar to our times. In fact they are rooted in ancient problems of civic belonging.

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.