Once upon a time there were the Pampas in Argentina, that people could treat as "empty lands" and where they could run away from their problems from problem-ridden homes. That eventuality is no longer available.

For the first time in living memory, the whole class of graduates faces a future of crushing debt, and a high probability, almost the certainty, of ad hoc, temporary, insecure and part-time work and unpaid 'trainee' pseudo-jobs deceitfully rebranded as 'practices' - all considerably below the skills they have acquired and eons below the level of their expectations.

The task for sociology is to come to the help of the individual. We have to be in service of freedom. It is something we have lost sight of.

The proof of my Jewishness is that iniquities done by Israel pain me much more than iniquities perpetrated by any other country.

The task is to keep the lost opportunities of the past alive.

All the skills which I have acquired during my sociological life allow me to diagnose and explain what is going on, but not to predict what will happen.

Christ could not create a codified 'Christian ethics'; such a thing would be a contradiction in terms.