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Of course, all democratic societies feature spirited debate about collective preferences.
Legitimate and accountable institutions and policymakers are what hold divided societies together and help them overcome dilemmas.
Hence, during his recent trip to Europe, Trump issued an ominous warning about immigration “changing the culture” of Western societies.
The ERC includes the social sciences and humanities, thereby recognizing their contributions to the evolution of societies.
The reasoning is peculiar, and seems to revive a nineteenth-century critique, usually associated with Nietzsche, that Christianity (and Islam) produces an acquiescent or even subservient mentality, in contrast to the heroic virtues of classical antiquity or of warrior societies, such as the world of the Japanese samurai.
First, the core of Weber’s argument was that religious values that emphasize restraint and a sense of duty may support dependability and reliability in business relations, which is especially vital in societies that are just opening up market relations.
That may be the case, and it may be a tempting argument to make in authoritarian societies that are unsympathetic to beliefs that challenge their own legitimacy.
And, above all, Turkey is now a role model for other Islamic societies striving to accommodate democracy, civil liberties, the rule of law, an open economy, pluralism, and religion.
Conspiracy theories thrive in relatively closed societies, where free access to news is limited and freedom of enquiry curtailed.
Other Confucian societies, such as South Korea, Taiwan, and Japan, now have thriving liberal democracies, and there is no reason to believe that such a transition is impossible in China.
What is true of book buying is also true for many other systems that are being digitized, such as our cities and societies.
Such people can also mobilize the worst instincts and passions, make masses fanatical, and lead societies into hell.
It may not be dignified to expect immigrant workers to do these "dirty" jobs, but to these workers such jobs offer a step on the ladder of hope as they help to keep advanced economies and societies functioning.
We must do everything to encourage Europe’s Muslim to become assimilated in European societies.
But on the level of individual societies, I believe that inequality does loom as a serious political-economic problem.
Why do some societies achieve the compromises needed to sustain an independent judiciary and a modern regulatory framework – both necessary for an efficient modern economy – while others perpetuate a partisan, winner-take-all approach to governance that weakens public policy and erodes private-sector confidence?
It is within our power to recover or reinvigorate our freedoms and our societies, not by individual efforts, but by joining forces with likeminded people all over the world.
This combined effect will damage societies for generations, while discouraging investment today.
These pathologies are energized in societies that are bereft, where sheer despair leaves people in positions without hope and faith in their surrounding society or civilization.
One of these struggles is taking place among Muslims themselves over the shape of reform within their own societies.
Back then, Muslim thinkers contrasted the decline of their own societies with Europe's dynamism, a particularly painful distinction in light of European successes in colonizing large parts of the Muslim world.
Then, too, Muslim intellectuals focused on the "decadence" of Muslim societies, their debilitating political and social corruption.
Many early Muslim reformists were clerics or senior bureaucrats, who had seen first hand how diminished their societies had become.
For the reformers, normality meant the progressive development of Muslim societies, and they tied this to the interaction of Islamic teaching with relevant, worldly ideas of the time.
The paradox here is that the open-minded reformism they espoused helped stir conservative trends among Islamic thinkers, who seized on the reformists' revival of Islamic norms to urge a return to the "purity" of the first Islamic societies.
This trend was accompanied by the fact that these societies were marked by a high degree of inequality, as well as unstable economies, weak political parties, fragmented oppositions, and fragile institutions.
The world’s fastest-aging societies – particularly countries in Europe (including Belgium, France, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, and the United Kingdom) and Asia (South Korea and Japan) – are leaders in international competitiveness and innovation.
And INSEAD’s Global Innovation Index shows that two-thirds of the world’s 25 most innovative countries are among the most aged societies.
Technology is blurring the comforting distinction between open and closed societies, and between planned and free economies, ultimately making it impossible for either to exist in its ideal form.
In the digital age, the biggest danger is not that technology will put free and autocratic societies increasingly at odds with one another.
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