Are Americans facing a future in which the family breadwinner must work an 80- hour week in order to pay the incoming bills? And even then must accept a lower standard of living? That's what the current gloom-and-doom forecasts add up to. The … [Read more...] about Longer Work Week, Lower Living Standards

One of the few football games I ever attended was a Notre Dame home game in the fall of 1970. At half-time, a Vietnam veteran hobbled out onto the playing field and was given a citation of appreciation from the team and the University for which he … [Read more...] about Football Heroes

The argument by some that the rejection of SALT II will result in an arms race which will be beyond the financial capabilities of the United States cannot be sustained. Cost is a phony argument when applied to strategic weapons, which make up the … [Read more...] about The Cost Argument and SALT II

Academic freedom and educational diversity won a great victory when the U.S. Senate voted to block the Internal Revenue Service from implementing its proposed regulation threatening the tax-deductible status of thousands of private and religious … [Read more...] about Academic Freedom Victory

Why is the Carter Administration shoring up Communist dictatorships with American aid, loans, and shipments of strategic military and industrial materials, while the people who live under Communism are risking their lives to escape? The message that … [Read more...] about Financing and Arming the Communists

The belated discovery of thousands of Russian combat troops in Cuba is a good time for us to examine the question: When we stand up to the Soviets and refuse to yield to their demands or offensive tactics, does this result in escalation or … [Read more...] about Standing up to the Soviets

Defense Secretary Harold Brown is urging the Senate to ratify the SALT II Treaty despite the almost 4-to-1 advantage it gives to the Soviets in land-based ICBM warheads because, he says, without SALT II, the Soviets can build an even greater … [Read more...] about The Alternative to SALT II

James Bryant Conant was the Harvard University President who signed my master's degree years ago. In addition to his academic post, his self-appointed social mission was to persuade post-World War II America to accept Universal Military Training, … [Read more...] about Compulsory National Service