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.

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.

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

Americas are, for a variety of reasons, the most adept at producing the kind of entertainment that delivers easy satisfactions.

All I will say is that there are particular features of the American constitutional system that renders a third party futile - at best.

Today's global justice movement may be the biggest, most diverse and energetic in history.

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