You can go into the Library of Congress and find information on just about anything, but that doesn't do you much good unless you know what you are looking for.

As long as each individual is facing the television tube alone, formal freedom poses no threat to privilege

The "end of history" has been proclaimed many times, always falsely.

To understand how people organize social systems, we have to discover the principles that we create to make some societies intelligible.

If you owned everything and a tiny little piece gets out of control, then your world's gone. Like some unusual child who has a million toys and one of them is stolen, he's going to perish.

Debt is a trap, especially student debt, which is enormous, far larger than credit card debt. It’s a trap for the rest of your life because the laws are designed so that you can’t get out of it. If a business, say, gets in too much debt it can declare bankruptcy, but individuals can almost never be relieved of student debt through bankruptcy.

As long as individuals are compelled to rent themselves on the market to those who are willing to hire them, as long as their role in production is simply that of ancillary tools, then there are striking elements of coercion and oppression that make talk of democracy very limited, if even meaningful.