My business is the analytical framework.

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

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.

American movies and music deliver themes of freedom, innocence, and power that appeal to others - partly because America itself was put together out of a multiplicity of national traditions.

Some versions of patriotism come close to the tribal, which we all want to surpass, and some don’t.

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

There is a fuzzy but real distinction that can and I believe should be made, between patriotism, which is attachment to a way of life, and nationalism, which is the insistence that your way of life deserves to rule over other ways of life.