Fundamentally, American society is composed of individuals who don't go out of their way to do each other favours.

American society is still puritanical.

The scars and stains of racism are still deeply embedded in the American society.

The problem of how we finance the welfare state should not obscure a separate issue: if each person thinks he has an inalienable right to welfare, no matter what happens to the world, that's not equity, it's just creating a society where you can't ask anything of people.

The devastating punch we took on September 11th still reverberates throughout American society.

American Society for Psychical Research Journals were all around the house when I was a kid.