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

A century of convulsive change leaves huge demographic gouge marks.

I don't think anyone in the media thinks strategically about society.

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

The genius of the economic machine is in its ability to convert these indulgences into profitability. It converts desire into attention, a grip on our eyeballs and eardrums, which in turn can be marketed to advertisers.

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.

It's an old anarchist dream that people can take care of their own lives.