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

If the Bible is a creation myth, it is an amorphous confusing one

The genius of the economic machine is in its ability to convert these indulgences into profitability. It converts desire into attention, a grip on our eyeballs and eardrums, which in turn can be marketed to advertisers.

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

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

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.