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.

I don't for the life of me understand how anybody could contemplate the results of the 2000 election in the US and say that electoral politics doesn't matter any more, and that Ralph Nader was right when he said there is no difference between the two parties.

I first came to think about media and politics in the late 1960s, having observed some distortions up close, but since then I wouldn't say that my personal experience has remained an important motive for my writing about media.

If the Bible is a creation myth, it is an amorphous confusing one

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

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

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