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

I don't think anyone in the media thinks strategically about society.

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

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

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

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

American movies and music deliver themes of freedom, innocence, and power that appeal to others - partly because America itself was put together out of a multiplicity of national traditions.