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.

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

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

I am concerned about how to reverse the process by which a fundamentalist right and a corporate elite were able to seize power in the United States.

I first came to think about media and politics in the late 1960s, having observed some distortions up close, but since then I wouldn't say that my personal experience has remained an important motive for my writing about media.

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

A century of convulsive change leaves huge demographic gouge marks.