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

I don't for the life of me understand how anybody could contemplate the results of the 2000 election in the US and say that electoral politics doesn't matter any more, and that Ralph Nader was right when he said there is no difference between the two parties.

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

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

A century of convulsive change leaves huge demographic gouge marks.

American movies and music deliver themes of freedom, innocence, and power that appeal to others - partly because America itself was put together out of a multiplicity of national traditions.

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