"I don't for the life of me understand……" — Todd Gitlin
"I don't for the life of me understand how anybody could contemplate the results of the 2000 election in the US and say that electoral politics doesn't matter any more, and that Ralph Nader was right when he said there is no difference between the two parties."
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Todd Gitlin
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There is a fuzzy but real distinction that can and I believe should be made, between patriotism, which is attachment…
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My business is the analytical framework.
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Human inertia makes the everyday environment, the furniture, as it were, appear to be a given.
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American movies and music deliver themes of freedom, innocence, and power that appeal to others - partly because America itself…
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The mobilisation which Bush has been able to perform since 11 September 2001 has to be fought - at least…
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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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The genius of the economic machine is in its ability to convert these indulgences into profitability. It converts desire into…
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Some fine day, Democrats may figure out how to get on the right side of the value divide - how…
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Right now, we have no possibility of politics because we have a one-party state.
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I am concerned about how to reverse the process by which a fundamentalist right and a corporate elite were able…
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I am a realist as well as an idealist, and I think that it is incumbent upon those of us…
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A century of convulsive change leaves huge demographic gouge marks.
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