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.

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

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

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.

Today's global justice movement may be the biggest, most diverse and energetic in history.

Who of us does not recognize that the life we live, however larded with brave talk about values and thought and ideals, is not actually a life dedicated to immersion in the endless torrent of images, songs, sounds and stories?