The basic fault lines today are not between people with different beliefs but between people who hold these beliefs with an element of uncertainty an….

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….

It has been true in Western societies and it seems to be true elsewhere that you do not find democratic systems apart from capitalism, or apart from ….

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 oth….

But we don't have an example of a democratic society existing in a socialist economy - which is the only real alternative to capitalism in the modern….

India is the most religious country in the world, Sweden is the most secular country in the world, and America is a country of Indians ruled by Swede….

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

A few years ago, a priest working in a slum section of a European city was asked why he was doing it, and replied, 'So that the rumor of God may not ….

If you are good for nothing else, you can still serve as a bad example..

The past is malleable and flexible, changing as our recollection interprets and re-explains what has happened..

In acute suffering the need for meaning is as strong or stronger than the need for happiness..

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

If a socialist economy is opened up to increasing degrees of market forces, a point will be reached at which democratic governance becomes a possibil….

There are times in history when the dark drums of God can barely be heard amid the noises of this world. Then it is only in moments of silence, which….

In all advanced industrial societies, education has become the single most important vehicle of upward mobility..

F. A. Hayek is probably the most prominent advocate of capitalism in the present period..

An economy oriented toward production for market exchange provides the optimal conditions for long-lasting and ever-expanding productive capacity bas….

There is a continuum of values between the churches and the general community. What distinguishes the handling of these values in the churches is mai….

When certain branches of the economy become obsolete, as in the case of the steel industry, not only do jobs disappear, which is obviously a terrible….

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

Even in a society as tightly controlled as Singapore's, the market creates certain forces which perhaps in the long run may lead to democracy.