Christopher Lasch

The effect of the mass media is not to elicit belief but to maintain the apparatus of addiction.

The model of ownership, in a society organized round mass consumption, is addiction.

It is advertising and the logic of consumerism that governs the depiction of reality in the mass media.

What people don't understand about Sarah Palin is that she is a rancher's wife. From Alberta down to Texas I've known women like that: good common sense, bright and vilified by city people.

The idea of progress - the notion that human history is the history of human betterment - dominated the world view of the West between the Enlightenment and the First World War.

There are severe limitations on civil rights. In the international arena, Iran is turning into an isolated country, and the international community is becoming more hostile toward it.