Bernard Shaw remains the only model we have of what the citizen of a democracy should be: an informed participant in all things we deem important to the society and the individual.

He sent me a letter from India, where I think he got a fellowship to spend a year or so. He sent me a letter that read, I've just met a wonderful guru who can …

I have always been - I think any student of history almost inevitably is - a cheerful pessimist.

Everybody keeps calling for Excellence - excellence not just in schooling, throughout society. But as soon as somebody or something stands out as Excellent, th…

There can be no daily democracy without daily citizenship.

Those who, in the nineteenth century, argued the dangers of a mass democracy in which a majority of the voters would have no stake in the country at all, had r…

As free citizens in a political democracy, we have a responsibility to be interested and involved in the affairs of the human community, be it at the local or …