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

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

The genius of the economic machine is in its ability to convert these indulgences into profitability. It converts desire into attention, a grip on our eyeballs and eardrums, which in turn can be marketed to advertisers.

Americas are, for a variety of reasons, the most adept at producing the kind of entertainment that delivers easy satisfactions.

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

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

Navigation is power of a limited sort - it enables us to manage the immensity of the media torrent.