The broad liberal objective is a balanced and flexible "mixed economy," thus seeking to occupy that middle ground between capitalism and socialism whose viability has so long been denied by both capitalists and socialists.

Few secret undertakings ever did any nation any good.

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

In view of the tide of religiosity engulfing a once secular republic it is refreshing to be reminded by Freethinkers that free thought and skepticism are robustly in the American tradition. After all the Founding Fathers began by omitting God from the American Constitution.

Problems will always torment us because all important problems are insoluble: that is why they are important. The good comes from the continuing struggle to try and solve them, not from the vain hope of their solution.

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?

Self-righteousness in retrospect is easy--also cheap.