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.

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

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

To win power anywhere you have to convince people that you can do something for them.

The mobilisation which Bush has been able to perform since 11 September 2001 has to be fought - at least by Americans - in the name of a wise, honourable and democratic patriotism.

I don't think anyone in the media thinks strategically about society.