Get full access to The Daily Beast for $1 Trending Now Jason Reed/Reuters Barack Obama was never going to be a champion of civil liberties; he leads a very old and quickly growing strain of the ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

Migrants are probably the most contentious issue of the past 20 years. Between those who see them as a source of societal enrichment and those who see them as a threat, what are we to make of it? A ...

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, ...

This penetrating account of the Singapore model by a senior Singaporean sociologist explains both why the model works and why it is not transferable to other countries. Chua describes the government’s ...

Toward the end of his memoir, My Brother’s Keeper, Amitai Etzioni recounts meeting with the political consultant Dick Morris. By signing up, you confirm that you are over the age of 16 and agree to ...

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, ...