If the cultural elite has its way, the U.S. will be much more like Europe

Some people think that as the Chinese economy becomes more and more capitalistic it will inevitably become more democratic

An economy oriented toward production for market exchange provides the optimal conditions for long-lasting and ever-expanding productive capacity based on modern technology.

The human organism is thus still developing biologically while already standing in a relationship to its environmont. In other words, the process of becoming man takes place in an interrelationship with an environment. (...) From the moment of birth, man's organismic development, and indeed a large part of his biological being as such, are subjected to continuing socially determined interference.

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

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

If you are good for nothing else, you can still serve as a bad example.