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

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

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

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

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Some versions of patriotism come close to the tribal, which we all want to surpass, and some don't.

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

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We may repeat the awful revolutionary history of the 20th century because of the vulnerability of social movements to demagoguery.

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

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Collectively, we are in thrall to media - because they deliver to us many of the psychic goods we crave, and we know no other way to live.

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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.

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