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

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

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

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

I am a realist as well as an idealist, and I think that it is incumbent upon those of us in opposition to try to work within what are always arduous circumstances to stretch the limits of the possible.

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.

A century of convulsive change leaves huge demographic gouge marks.