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.

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.

The moguls are driven by their respective desires for profit - period.

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

My business is the analytical framework.

Americas are, for a variety of reasons, the most adept at producing the kind of entertainment that delivers easy satisfactions.

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