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

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

All I will say is that there are particular features of the American constitutional system that renders a third party futile - at best.

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

A century of convulsive change leaves huge demographic gouge marks.

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.

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.