Why are empirical questions about how the mind works so weighted down with political and moral and emotional baggage?
The weak economy, widening income inequality, gridlock in Congress and a presidential election: Those were perhaps the dominant economic and political themes of 2012.
I don't set out to write a political song. I am not one of those that feels compelled to write about what's going on.
The most powerful political voices are those with a different way of seeing and processing the world and the sounds that emanate from it.
The political currents that topped the global agenda in the late 20th century - revolutionary nationalism, feminism and ethnic struggle - place culture at their heart.
Surrogate motherhood has been the subject of much philosophical and political dispute over the years.
A public role endures for the literary high-command, as sages and seers, speaking out on social and political issues.
It's a very insular political community up there. I think the court's part of that and they're protecting their own. There's no justice in Vermont today.
The United States attorney in South Carolina was a Barack Obama appointee. Politically, he is to the left of Mao Zedong.
Our opponents maintain that we are confronted with insurmountable political obstacles, but that may be said of the smallest obstacle if one has no desire to surmount it.
I would say L.A. is more polite than London - it's a very careful place. People talk a lot in code.
Healthcare reform is a paradigmatic case. It is self-evidently necessary and inevitable and has been on the agenda for 35 years, and the political class seems completely unable to respond to it.
When you're a new person and a new idea, you get invited to all these different things, and everybody wants a piece of you. And you want to be polite and say yes to everything, but it gets dangerous.
Political corruption, social greed, and Americanized quasi-socialism can ruin even the most wonderful places. California proved that.
To befoul the unholy alliance between corrupt business & corrupt politics is the first task of the statesmanship of the day.
I feel the whole issue has been a witchhunt from day one as part of a broader Republican political agenda.
Having parents who were hard working, blue collar, and staunchly independent, neither political party's positioning really impressed me.
I could not cherish London and not value Jewish London. The contribution of Jews to London is immense - politically, economically, culturally, intellectually, philanthropically, artistically.
I am different than some people would like me to be. I just don't buy into that the personal can be political.
The Cannes film festival is about big-budget films but also remarkable films made in different political regimes by film-makers with little resources.
The fine line that you do when you do political comedy is, as long as you have that laugh, you're fine.
