Hierarchy is is much reviled in the present day.

It is very reasonable to worry about the harm done by organized religion, and to prefer looser and more private arrangements.

Inequality can have a bad downside, but equality, for its part, sure does get in the way of coordination.

Since 1970, relationships can be more volatile, jobs more ephemeral, geographical mobility more intensified, stability of marriage weaker.

Institutions have the pathetic megalomania of the computer whose whole vision of the world is its own program.

Some scholars have been arguing that a civilizational clash between organized religions is the next step in human history.

Hierarchy is is much reviled in the present day.