So American culture is itself a hybrid and lends itself to use in other people's hybrids.

Right now, we have no possibility of politics because we have a one-party state.

I am a realist as well as an idealist, and I think that it is incumbent upon those of us in opposition to try to work within what are always arduous circumstances to stretch the limits of the possible.

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.

My business is the analytical framework.

A century of convulsive change leaves huge demographic gouge marks.