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

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 basic fault lines today are not between people with different beliefs but between people who hold these beliefs with an element of uncertainty and people who hold these beliefs with a pretense of certitude

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

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

If you say simply that pressures toward democracy are created by the market, I would say yes

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.