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.

The mobilisation which Bush has been able to perform since 11 September 2001 has to be fought - at least by Americans - in the name of a wise, honourable and democratic patriotism.

All I will say is that there are particular features of the American constitutional system that renders a third party futile - at best.

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

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

Who of us does not recognize that the life we live, however larded with brave talk about values and thought and ideals, is not actually a life dedicated to immersion in the endless torrent of images, songs, sounds and stories?