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Category: Todd Gitlin

3 December 2020 Todd Gitlin

There is a fuzzy but real distinction that can and I believe should be made, between patriotism, which is attachment to a way of life, and nationalism, which is the insistence that your way of life deserves to rule over other ways of life.

3 December 2020 Todd Gitlin

I first came to think about media and politics in the late 1960s, having observed some distortions up close, but since then I wouldn’t say that my personal experience has remained an important motive for my writing about media.

3 December 2020 Todd Gitlin

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.

3 December 2020 Todd Gitlin

I don’t think anyone in the media thinks strategically about society.

3 December 2020 Todd Gitlin

American movies and music deliver themes of freedom, innocence, and power that appeal to others – partly because America itself was put together out of a multiplicity of national traditions.

3 December 2020 Todd Gitlin

The mobilisation which Bush has been able to perform since 11 September 2001 has to be fought – at least by Americans – in the name of a wise, honourable and democratic patriotism.

3 December 2020 Todd Gitlin

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

3 December 2020 Todd Gitlin

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.

3 December 2020 Todd Gitlin

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

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