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

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

The moguls are driven by their respective desires for profit - period.

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.

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.

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.