If Durkheim was right to claim that the sacred remains a powerful social force in the modern world, where can we find it? One obvious answer is the collective symbols that people gather around as they ...

As the few surviving photographs we have of him suggest, Emile Durkheim was by all accounts a somewhat stern man. His moral seriousness was such that his nephew, Marcel Mauss, was reportedly struck by ...

A few years ago I was planning a book on market capitalism—one that would demonstrate its inestimable virtues. But in a moment of candour it occurred to me that I had not exposed myself sufficiently ...