Even at the end of a presidential election campaign, we have no way to know what Mitt Romney really believes.

The reality is that the media are probably the most powerful of all our institutions today and they, or rather we [journalists], too often are squandering our power and ignoring our obligations. The consequence of our abdication of responsibility is the ugly spectacle of idiot culture!

Today, ordinary Americans are being stuffed with garbage.

The American Revolution and Declaration of Independence, it has often been argued, were fueled by the most radical of all American political ideas.

There's something totally crazy about this.

Increasingly, the picture of our society as rendered in our media is illusionary and delusionary: disfigured, unreal, out of touch with reality, disconnected from the true context of our life. It is disfigured by celebrity, by celebrity worship, by gossip, by sensationalism, by denial of our societies

Radical thought has inspired many of the great political and social reform movements in American history, from ending slavery to establishing the minimum wage.