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.

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

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

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

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

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.

Today's global justice movement may be the biggest, most diverse and energetic in history.