I have come to realize that Jesse Helms stands for everything in politics that is anathema to me.

I've always said that in politics, your enemies can't hurt you, but your friends will kill you.

My passion for ideas is not matched with a passion for partisan or electoral politics.

In addition to the decline in competition, American politics today is characterized by a growing ideological polarization between the two major political parties.

Universities are some of the few places left where a struggle for the commons, for public life, if not democracy itself, can be made visible through the medium of collective voices and social movements energized by the need for a politics and way of life counter to authoritarian capitalism.