I Knew Barack Obama, Absolutely.

Part Of The Fun Of Writing, Touring, Teaching, Is Engaging With Real People About All Of It: What To Do Now, How To Build A Movement, Of Approaches To Teaching, Of Parenting - It's Exciting To Be In That Dialogue.

In Cairo, These Young Men Hanging Around In The Street, We're Told These Guys Are Lazy, They're Uneducated, They Don't Care, They Don't Have Any Political Instincts - Just Like The Working Class In America, Apparently - And Then Suddenly What The Hell Happened? What Was That? They Changed The World By Changing Themselves. Now Is That Over? No. Is The Civil Rights Movement Over? No. These Movements Have Not Accomplished What They Set Out To Accomplish.

The Massive Anti-war Movement, Which I Was A Part Of And Which Was A Major Part Of My Life, Never Stopped The War In Vietnam.

If You Read The Literature Of Soviet Communism, You See A Dogma That's Chilling. On The Other Hand, If You Read The Literature Of Anti-communism, It's Every Bit As Dogmatic.

I Have An Addiction To Caffeine.