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

If the Bible is a creation myth, it is an amorphous confusing one

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.

I first came to think about media and politics in the late 1960s, having observed some distortions up close, but since then I wouldn't say that my personal experience has remained an important motive for my writing about media.

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.

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

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