The negative side to globalization is that it wipes out entire economic systems and in doing so wipes out the accompanying culture

To be located in society means to be at the intersection point of specific social forces. Commonly one ignores these forces one also knows that there is not an awful lot that one can do about this.

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

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

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.

In science, as in love, a concentration on technique is likely to lead to impotence.

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