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

Unlike puppets we have the possibility of stopping in our movements, looking up and perceiving the machinery by which we have been moved. In this act lies the first steps towards freedom.

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

Our institute's agenda is relatively simple. We study the relationship between social-economic change and culture. By culture we mean beliefs, values and lifestyles. We cover a broad range of issues, and we work very internationally.

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.

There is an intrinsic linkage between socialism and economic inefficiency.

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