Some fine day, Democrats may figure out how to get on the right side of the value divide - how to define America as a place of the common good and not a playground of the strong.

Today's global justice movement may be the biggest, most diverse and energetic in history.

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

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

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

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

Sure, I've often been misrepresented - anyone frequently quoted has this experience.