1. See David Easton, The Political System (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1953), Chap. 5.
2. Lionel Trilling, The Liberal Imagination: Essays on Literature and Society, introduction by Louis Menand (New York: New York Review Books, [1950] 2008), p. xvii.
3. Lionel Trilling, “The Leavis-Snow Controversy,” in Trilling, The Moral Obligation to be Intelligent, ed. Leon Wieseltier (Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 2009), p. 419.
4. Max Horkheimer and Theodor W. Adorno, Dialectic of Enlightenment: Philosophical Fragments, ed. Gunzelin Schmid Noerr, trans. Edmund Jephcott (Stanford: Stanford University Press, [1947] 2002), p. xiv.
5. See Max Horkheimer, “Art and Mass Culture,” in Max Horkheimer, Critical Theory: Selected Essays, trans. Matthew O’Connell et al. (New York: Seabury Press, 1972), pp. 273–90;