Language is capable of becoming the objective repository of vast accumulations of meaning and experience, which it can then preserve in time and transmit to following generations.

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

There is an intrinsic linkage between socialism and economic inefficiency.

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

We also have a cultural phenomenon: the emergence of a global culture, or of cultural globalization

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