"The discussion of any society risks seduction by what is transient and tumultuous."

"I was born in galut [exile] and I accept—now gladly, though once in pain—the double burden and the double pleasure of…"

"I’ve called myself a socialist in economics, a liberal in politics, and a conservative in culture. I’m a socialist in…"

"That fabulous polymath Samuel Johnson maintained that no man in his right mind ever read a book through from beginnin…"

"Religions grow out of the deepest needs of individuals sharing a common awakening, and are not created by "engineers …"

"Nihilism, then, is the end process of rationalism. It is man's self conscious will to destroy his past and control hi…"

"Modern culture is defined by this extraordinary freedom to ransack the world storehouse and to engorge any and every …"

"It is equally clear that what an individual often wants for himself (such as an open highway) in the aggregate become…"

"The relationship between a civilization's socio-economic structure and its culture is perhaps the most complicated of…"

"Crime is a form of "unorganized" class struggle, and the lowest groups in the society have always committed a disprop…"