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.

There is a fuzzy but real distinction that can and I believe should be made, between patriotism, which is attachment to a way of life, and nationalism, which is the insistence that your way of life deserves to rule over other ways of life.

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

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

My position is not that John Kerry is either Jesus Christ or the prophet Mohammad. My position is that John Kerry is the possibility of restarting politics.

I don't think anyone in the media thinks strategically about society.