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

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

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.

Some versions of patriotism come close to the tribal, which we all want to surpass, and some don’t.

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

It's an old anarchist dream that people can take care of their own lives.

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