F. A. Hayek is probably the most prominent advocate of capitalism in the present period.

In all advanced industrial societies, education has become the single most important vehicle of upward mobility.

There is a continuum of values between the churches and the general community. What distinguishes the handling of these values in the churches is mainly the heavier dosage of religious vocabulary involved

One can't understand the Christian Right and similar movements unless one sees them as reactive - they're reacting to what they call secular humanism

He who has the bigger stick has the better chance of imposing his definitions of reality.

But we don't have an example of a democratic society existing in a socialist economy - which is the only real alternative to capitalism in the modern world.

It has been true in Western societies and it seems to be true elsewhere that you do not find democratic systems apart from capitalism, or apart from a market economy, if you prefer that term