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.

After his leadership in SDS he earned graduate degrees from the University of Michigan (political science) and the University of California Berkeley (sociology). He is now a professor of journalism and sociology and chair of the Ph. Public intellectual
He has written 15 books and hundreds of articles in dozens of publications including The New York Times Los Angeles Times Washington Post Boston Globe Ha'aretz Columbia Journalism Review Tablet Magazine The New Republic Mother Jones and many more.

Todd Gitlin (born 1943) is an American sociologist political writer novelist and cultural commentator.