We Also Have A Cultural Phenomenon: The

East Asia Confirms The Superior Capacity Of Industrial Capitalism In Raising The Material Standard Of Living Of Large Masses Of People.

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

He Who Sups With The Devil Had Better Have A Long Spoon. The Devilry Of Modernity Has Its Own Magic: The [believer] Who Sups With It Will Find His Spoon Getting Shorter And Shorter--until That Last Supper In Which He Is Left Alone At The Table, With No Spoon At All And With An Empty Plate. The Devil, One May Guess, Will By Then Have Gone Away To More Interesting Company.

I'm Sure Putnam Is Right That There's Been A Decline In Certain Kinds Of Organizations Like Bowling Leagues. But People Participate In Communities In Other Ways.

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.