He was a longtime social democrat who melded his belief in a mixed economy and political pluralism with a cultural conservatism that saw both the affluence of capitalism and the ’60s counterculture as dangers to society’s “moral temper.”
His skeptical temperament made him leery of both the claims of self-defined elites and the supposed promise of modernism.
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(Time) Daniel Bell RIP
He was a longtime social democrat who melded his belief in a mixed economy and political pluralism with a cultural conservatism that saw both the affluence of capitalism and the ’60s counterculture as dangers to society’s “moral temper.”
His skeptical temperament made him leery of both the claims of self-defined elites and the supposed promise of modernism.
Read it all.