Big business, for all its lobbying, is often put in line by investigative reporting, public scandals and multi-million-dollar judgments in court against those who put products on the market that are dangerous to their buyers.

Under popular culture's obsession with a naive inclusion, everything is O.K.

Our democratic richness arrives when we're able to comprehend our collective humanity accurately.

The discussion of ideas as opposed to the American narcissistic obsession with what's going on with the self, that's the general thing people are talking about.

Your ethnic or sexual identity, what region of the country you're from, what your class is - those aspects of your identity are not the same as your aesthetic identity.

If there's an intellectual highway, there's also an intellectual subway.

But the myth of violent solutions as the ultimate solutions maintains itself in much of popular media.