"The worst crime against working people is a company that fails to make a profit." John D. Rockefeller? Andrew Carnegie? Wrong. The author of that statement was none other than Samuel Gompers, who headed the American Federation of Labor from 1886 to … [Read more...] about The Need for Profits

Those who hoped that the College of Cardinals would select an American Pope for the Catholic Church were disappointed, but they can rejoice that the new Pope took the same name as one of the most revered of American patriots. In selecting his name, … [Read more...] about Pope John Paul I

When is the Carter Administration going to stop acting as though the money mess is just one of 20 items on the week's agenda and start treating it like the crisis that it is? In the last year, the dollar has lost 33 percent of its value against the … [Read more...] about The Money Mess

Is the world of tomorrow one of unlimited energy -- or a world in which our prime task will be to allocate equitable shares of rapidly shrinking resources? Are we running out of energy -- or have we barely scratched the surface of the treasure trove … [Read more...] about Fusion Power in our Future

For centuries the Seven Deadly Sins have been considered a quaint artifact of the Middle Ages, useful to medieval scholars but beneath the dignity of sophisticated modern man. Every king and peasant in Christendom used to be able to recite the 1,300 … [Read more...] about The Seven Deadly Sins

The American people and their Congressmen used to take it for granted that military superiority over any combination of possible aggressors was a fixed U.S. policy goal. Then, during the years that Defense Secretary Robert McNamara and Secretary of. … [Read more...] about Defense Coalition in Congress

"Overpopulation is the only really grave problem mankind faces. All other problems are secondary. ... The population explosion is a recipe for disaster for all nations, underpopulated or overpopulated." This quotation is from one of many newspaper … [Read more...] about The Overpopulation Myth

Stagflation is the reason Democratic Congressional candidates are apprehensive about the elections this fall. This newly-named economic disease is a combination of sharply rising inflation (running at 11.4 percent) and stubborn unemployment (now 6.2 … [Read more...] about The Stagflation Blues

"Excessive greatness of a town," "multitude of corporations," and too much "ghostly authority" or power of organized religion were listed by the 17th-century British political philosopher Thomas Hobbes among the infirmities of a commonwealth. He … [Read more...] about Need for “People-Sized” Institutions