Nostalgia combines regularly with manifest respectability to give credence to old error as opposed to new truth.

The urge to consume is fathered by the value system which emphasizes the ability of the society to produce.

Partly, the Russian system succeeds because, in contrast to the Western industrial economies, it makes full use of its manpower.

All crises have involved debt that, in one fashion or another, has become dangerously out of scale in relation to the underlying means of payment.

Consumer wants can have bizarre, frivolous, or even immoral origins, and an admirable case can still be made for a society that seeks to satisfy them. But the case cannot stand if it is the process of satisfying wants that create the wants.

We shall have a race of men who are strong on telemetry and space communications but who cannot read anything but a blueprint or write anything but a computer program.

Third party politics, at least since La Follette, has always had an element of romance.