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.

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Navigation is power of a limited sort - it enables us to manage the immensity...

Navigation is power of a limited sort - it enables us to manage the immensity...

We may repeat the awful revolutionary history of the 20th century because of the vulnerability...

We may repeat the awful revolutionary history of the 20th century because of the vulnerability...

My position is not that John Kerry is either Jesus Christ or the prophet Mohammad....

My position is not that John Kerry is either Jesus Christ or the prophet Mohammad....

Americas are, for a variety of reasons, the most adept at producing the kind of...

Americas are, for a variety of reasons, the most adept at producing the kind of...

All I will say is that there are particular features of the American constitutional system...

All I will say is that there are particular features of the American constitutional system...

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

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

My book is focused on the power of the American state, not least because the...

My book is focused on the power of the American state, not least because the...

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

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

Like Americans, people outside America want fun, want an emotional compensation for the utilitarianism and...

Like Americans, people outside America want fun, want an emotional compensation for the utilitarianism and...

I don't for the life of me understand how anybody could contemplate the results of...

I don't for the life of me understand how anybody could contemplate the results of...

I am concerned about how to reverse the process by which a fundamentalist right and...

I am concerned about how to reverse the process by which a fundamentalist right and...

A century of convulsive change leaves huge demographic gouge marks.

A century of convulsive change leaves huge demographic gouge marks.

Collectively, we are in thrall to media - because they deliver to us many of...

Collectively, we are in thrall to media - because they deliver to us many of...

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

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

Some fine day, Democrats may figure out how to get on the right side of...

Some fine day, Democrats may figure out how to get on the right side of...

The manufacture of desire isn't at the heart - if it isn't absurd to speak...

The manufacture of desire isn't at the heart - if it isn't absurd to speak...

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

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

I am a realist as well as an idealist, and I think that it is...

I am a realist as well as an idealist, and I think that it is...

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

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

American movies and music deliver themes of freedom, innocence, and power that appeal to others...

American movies and music deliver themes of freedom, innocence, and power that appeal to others...