Todd Gitlin

Like Americans, people outside America want fun, want an emotional compensation for the utilitarianism and calculation that mark the rest of their lives. ↗

— Todd Gitlin

#calculation #compensation #emotional #fun #like

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

— Todd Gitlin

#history #insisted #intersection #mills #proper

My business is the analytical framework. ↗

— Todd Gitlin

#business #framework

My position is not that John Kerry is either Jesus Christ or the prophet Mohammad. My position is that John Kerry is the possibility of restarting politics. ↗

— Todd Gitlin

#either #jesus #jesus christ #john #john kerry

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

— Todd Gitlin

#immensity #limited #manage #media #navigation

Right now, we have no possibility of politics because we have a one-party state. ↗

— Todd Gitlin

#now #one-party #politics #possibility #right

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

— Todd Gitlin

#american culture #culture #hybrid #hybrids #itself

Some fine day, Democrats may figure out how to get on the right side of the value divide - how to define America as a place of the common good and not a playground of the strong. ↗

— Todd Gitlin

#common #common good #day #define #democrats

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

— Todd Gitlin

#come #patriotism #some #surpass #tribal

Sure, I've often been misrepresented - anyone frequently quoted has this experience. ↗

— Todd Gitlin

#been #experience #frequently #i #misrepresented