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

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

We may repeat the awful revolutionary history of the 20th century because of the vulnerability of social movements to demagoguery.

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

Like Americans, people outside America want fun, want an emotional compensation for the utilitarianism and calculation that mark the rest of their lives.

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

The mobilisation which Bush has been able to perform since 11 September 2001 has to be fought - at least by Americans - in the name of a wise, honourable and democratic patriotism.