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.

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.

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

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.

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

A century of convulsive change leaves huge demographic gouge marks.

To win power anywhere you have to convince people that you can do something for them.