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

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.

Sure, I've often been misrepresented - anyone frequently quoted has this experience.

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

Navigation is power of a limited sort - it enables us to manage the immensity of the media torrent.

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.

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