"Some people, myself included, advocated foreign intervention in Bosnia and Kosovo while opposing our adventure in Ira…"

"My concern tonight is the following: Why is it that here in the United States we have such difficulty even imagining …"

"What, then, is to be done? We have to begin with the state: as the incarnation of collective interests, collective pu…"

"I was brought up on English food. But not fish and chips, spotted dick, toad in the hole, Yorkshire pud, or other del…"

"We don’t live in a world of fixed historical laws that says the—as you describe it—liberal state was born at a partic…"

"What’s missing from public conversation and public policy conversation is precisely a sort of moral underpinning, a s…"

"One of the very few things that I know I believe strongly is that we must learn how to make a better world out of usa…"

"Where does that leave me? Trying, as usual, to square general truths with particular circumstances. That’s the differ…"

"I hate publicity, celebrity, fame, and notoriety, all of which are associated with controversy in its public form. Bu…"

"It is the liberals, then, who count. They are, as it might be, the canaries in the sulphurous mineshaft of modern dem…"