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

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

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

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

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

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

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.