Barack Obama was never going to be a champion of civil liberties; he leads a very old and quickly growing strain of the Democratic Party that prioritizes the collective good over individual rights.

JTA — “Although I was born in Germany, my formative years were spent in the early, idealistic days of the cooperative Jewish settlements, in pre-Israel, Palestine,” wrote Amitai Etzioni in his 2003 ...

Amitai Etzioni, a leader of the so-called communitarian movement, has a thoughtful essay over at The New Republic on connections between consumerism and the economic crisis. A culture in which the ...

Amitai Etzioni, a German-born Israeli-American sociologist who founded the Communitarian Network, wrote in his memoir about how his youth in Israel helped develop his social theories. “Although I was ...

A sociologist, he advised U.S. presidents and other Western leaders while fathering communitarianism, a political middle ground between the left and the right. By Robert D. McFadden Amitai Etzioni, ...

Congratulations! I saw the book.” Opalaba announced his New Year entrance into my world even before his usual boisterous “Happy New Year” greeting. “Happy New Year! Old Chum”, I replied. “But what ...

The University of Notre Dame has a journal, Church Life, that was recently called to me attention and which is worth paying attention to. Here is a link to an article by Robert Christian entitled, ...