There is far less to the Presidency, in terms of essential activity, than meets the eye.

What higher obligation does a President have than to explain his intentions to the people and persuade them that the direction he wishes to go is right?

Science and Technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response. Expelled from individual consciousness by the rush of change, history finds its revenge by stamping the collective unconscious with habits, values, expectations, dreams. The dialectic between past and future will continue to form our lives.

The very discovery of the New world was the by-product of a dietary quest.

In Defense of the World Order . . . U.S. soldiers would have to kill and die.

For most Americans the Constitution had become a hazy document, cited like the Bible on ceremonial occasions but forgotten in the daily transactions of life.

All wars are popular for the first 30 days.