Right now, we have no possibility of politics because we have a one-party state.

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

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

Some fine day, Democrats may figure out how to get on the right side of the value divide - how to define America as a place of the common good and not a playground of the strong.

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

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

Americas are, for a variety of reasons, the most adept at producing the kind of entertainment that delivers easy satisfactions.