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

My position is not that John Kerry is either Jesus Christ or the prophet Mohammad. My position is that John Kerry is the possibility of restarting politics.

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.

Who of us does not recognize that the life we live, however larded with brave talk about values and thought and ideals, is not actually a life dedicated to immersion in the endless torrent of images, songs, sounds and stories?

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

A century of convulsive change leaves huge demographic gouge marks.

It's an old anarchist dream that people can take care of their own lives.