Materialism is not fundamentally an economic problem, but a cultural one... a spiritual issue. It runs to the depths of our souls, and, for this reas….

Interpretations of Muslim assimilation have gravitated between two arguments: that Muslims will remain as permanent outsiders or that Muslims will bl….

The sense that materialism has gotten out of hand is magnified by the pressures facing middle-class American families..

The danger, then, is that materialism is not only shaping how we live but the way we think as well. It influences our consumer tastes and our prefere….

By the same token, frozen dinners, a microwave oven, a dishwasher, and an illegal immigrant hired to clean the house and take one's cat to the vet wo….