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

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.

I am concerned about how to reverse the process by which a fundamentalist right and a corporate elite were able to seize power in the United States.

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

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

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

A century of convulsive change leaves huge demographic gouge marks.