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

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

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

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

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

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.

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