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

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

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

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

To win power anywhere you have to convince people that you can do something for them.

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.

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