We may repeat the awful revolutionary history of the 20th century because of the vulnerability of social movements to demagoguery.

Who of us does not recognize that the life we live, however larded with brave talk about values and thought and ideals, is not actually a life dedicated to immersion in the endless torrent of images, songs, sounds and stories?

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

Mills insisted that a sociologist's proper subject was the intersection of biography and history.

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

My business is the analytical framework.

Some fine day, Democrats may figure out how to get on the right side of the value divide - how to define America as a place of the common good and not a playground of the strong.