Human inertia makes the everyday environment, the furniture, as it were, appear to be a given.

A century of convulsive change leaves huge demographic gouge marks.

Americas are, for a variety of reasons, the most adept at producing the kind of entertainment that delivers easy satisfactions.

Right now, we have no possibility of politics because we have a one-party state.

The moguls are driven by their respective desires for profit - period.

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.

Collectively, we are in thrall to media - because they deliver to us many of the psychic goods we crave, and we know no other way to live.