Do ideals, symbols and beliefs lead people to act as they do? Or are the wellsprings of action and the drivers of history less ethereal: money, fear, the thirst for power, circumstance and opportunity, with culture as an afterthought? Scholars in the first camp are culturalists; in the second, materialists.

I have done as thou badest me.

I listened carefully, but the technical jargon went over my head.

It's almost like the Bernie Sanders guys are scared! The Bernistas are out in force!