The only people available to change the world are the people now living in it, with all the beliefs they bring along - however retrograde those beliefs may appear to those of us who see ourselves as enlightened.

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So every day I'm mindful as I watch the Bush crowd extend their sway into...

So every day I'm mindful as I watch the Bush crowd extend their sway into...

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...

As I write at the end, if we step back and face the enormity of...

As I write at the end, if we step back and face the enormity of...

Today's global justice movement may be the biggest, most diverse and energetic in history.

Today's global justice movement may be the biggest, most diverse and energetic in history.

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....

The mobilisation which Bush has been able to perform since 11 September 2001 has to...

The mobilisation which Bush has been able to perform since 11 September 2001 has to...

My business is the analytical framework.

My business is the analytical framework.

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.

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...

A century of convulsive change leaves huge demographic gouge marks.

A century of convulsive change leaves huge demographic gouge marks.

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

The fancy term for what America has squandered in the past year and a half...

The fancy term for what America has squandered in the past year and a half...

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 first came to think about media and politics in the late 1960s, having observed...

I first came to think about media and politics in the late 1960s, having observed...

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

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