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

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

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

Sure, I've often been misrepresented - anyone frequently quoted has this experience.

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.

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

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.