A century of convulsive change leaves huge demographic gouge marks.

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

So American culture is itself a hybrid and lends itself to use in other people's hybrids.

I don't for the life of me understand how anybody could contemplate the results of the 2000 election in the US and say that electoral politics doesn't matter any more, and that Ralph Nader was right when he said there is no difference between the two parties.

I am a realist as well as an idealist, and I think that it is incumbent upon those of us in opposition to try to work within what are always arduous circumstances to stretch the limits of the possible.

We may repeat the awful revolutionary history of the 20th century because of the vulnerability of social movements to demagoguery.

I first came to think about media and politics in the late 1960s, having observed some distortions up close, but since then I wouldn't say that my personal experience has remained an important motive for my writing about media.