"A Socialist in Economics, a Liberal in Politics and a Conservative in Culture"

"In 'The End of Ideology' he contended—nearly three decades before the collapse of Communism—that ideologies that had once driven global politics were losing force and thus providing openings for newer galvanizing beliefs to gain toeholds. In 'The Coming of Post-Industrial Society,' he foresaw the global spread of service-based economies as generators of capital and employment, supplanting those dominated by manufacturing or agriculture.
"In Mr. Bell’s view, Western capitalism had come to rely on mass consumerism, acquisitiveness and widespread indebtedness, undermining the old Protestant ethic of thrift and modesty that writers like Max Weber and R.H. Tawney had long credited as the reasons for capitalism’s success."

In The New York Times, Michael T. Kaufman writes an obituary for Daniel Bell.

Roberto Foa and Thomas Meaney in The Utopian give Bell one of his last interviews.