Religion is the human attitude towards a sacred order that includes within it all being-human or otherwise-i.e., belief in a cosmos, the meaning of which both includes and transcends man.

Let me say again that the relationship is asymmetrical: there's no democracy without a market economy, but you can have a market economy without democracy.

Institutions provide procedures through which human conduct is patterned, compelled to go, in grooves deemed desirable by society. And this trick is performed by making these grooves appear to the individual as the only possible ones.

East Asia confirms the superior capacity of industrial capitalism in raising the material standard of living of large masses of people.

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

Even if one is interested only in one's own society, which is one's prerogative, one can understand that society much better by comparing it with others.

The problem with liberal Protestantism in America is not that it has not been orthodox enough, but that it has lost a lot of religious substance