Who of us does not recognize that the life we live, however larded with brave talk about values and thought and ideals, is not actually a life dedica….

All I will say is that there are particular features of the American constitutional system that renders a third party futile - at best..

Human inertia makes the everyday environment, the furniture, as it were, appear to be a given..

It's an old anarchist dream that people can take care of their own lives..

I don't think anyone in the media thinks strategically about society..

Like Americans, people outside America want fun, want an emotional compensation for the utilitarianism and calculation that mark the rest of their li….

I am concerned about how to reverse the process by which a fundamentalist right and a corporate elite were able to seize power in the United States..

Mills insisted that a sociologist's proper subject was the intersection of biography and history..

Right now, we have no possibility of politics because we have a one-party state..

The genius of the economic machine is in its ability to convert these indulgences into profitability. It converts desire into attention, a grip on ou….

To win power anywhere you have to convince people that you can do something for them..

Navigation is power of a limited sort - it enables us to manage the immensity of the media torrent..

I am a realist as well as an idealist, and I think that it is incumbent upon those of us in opposition to try to work within what are always arduous ….

If the Bible is a creation myth, it is an amorphous confusing one.

Americas are, for a variety of reasons, the most adept at producing the kind of entertainment that delivers easy satisfactions..

American movies and music deliver themes of freedom, innocence, and power that appeal to others - partly because America itself was put together out ….

America is not just 'a nation with the soul of a church,' as G.K. Chesterton wrote in 1992: it is a nation with the mind of a crusade.

Collectively, we are in thrall to media - because they deliver to us many of the psychic goods we crave, and we know no other way to live..

A century of convulsive change leaves huge demographic gouge marks..

There is a fuzzy but real distinction that can and I believe should be made, between patriotism, which is attachment to a way of life, and nationalis….

My business is the analytical framework..