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

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

My business is the analytical framework.

The mobilisation which Bush has been able to perform since 11 September 2001 has to be fought - at least by Americans - in the name of a wise, honourable and democratic patriotism.

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

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.

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