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

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

Navigation is power of a limited sort - it enables us to manage the immensity of the media torrent.

A century of convulsive change leaves huge demographic gouge marks.

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

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.

Like Americans, people outside America want fun, want an emotional compensation for the utilitarianism and calculation that mark the rest of their lives.