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

- Todd Gitlin

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

- Todd Gitlin

Some versions of patriotism come close to the tribal, which we all want to surpass, and some don’t.

- Todd Gitlin

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

- Todd Gitlin

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

- Todd Gitlin

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

- Todd Gitlin

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

- Todd Gitlin

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

- Todd Gitlin

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

- Todd Gitlin