The novelist Virginia Woolf once said, "on or about December 1910, human character changed." (see Jackson Lears). She was kidding about the specificity of the date but in earnest about the change.

The American Journal of Economics and Sociology, Vol. 66, No. 1, The Challenges of Globalization: Rethinking Nature, Culture, and Freedom (Jan., 2007), pp. 151-172 (22 pages) This chapter explores a ...

Nowhere was this tendency towards self-flagellation more evident than in the reaction to the Committee on Background and Opportunity (COMBO) survey. After keeping the survey’s findings hidden during a ...

In the early 1970s, renowned anthropologist Clifford Geertz published his most influential book, The Interpretation of Cultures. The book was widely read throughout the social sciences and humanities, ...

The most powerful way to move beyond the intellectual bankruptcy contributed to the social scientific study of religion by cultural relativism is to defend a version of innate ideas embedded in a ...

The day before he was elected as Pope Benedict XVI, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger addressed the cardinals assembled in St Peter’s and warned that society was “building a dictatorship of relativism that ...

President Levin, in his “Statement in Commemoration of Martin Luther King, Jr.,” encouraged us to honor King by making Monday “a special day to renew our personal and collective commitment to racial, ...

Spending last week in Brazil altered my thinking subtly. I'm just sorting it out now, the effect of spending a week in a foreign culture. I would hate to think that I am becoming apathetic, but when I ...