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
Todd GitlinSo American culture is itself a hybrid and lends itself to use in other people's hybrids.
Todd GitlinWe may repeat the awful revolutionary history of the 20th century because of the vulnerability of social movements to demagoguery.
Todd Gitlin