Superficial observers have long criticized the United States for making a fetish of youth. This is unfair. Uniquely among modern organs of public and private administration, its national legislature rewards senility.

For the sake of The Progressive, I will say that [Robert] La Follette was relevant, but he was the last.

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

The power of the corporate bureaucracy - the power of technostructure (a term that did not take off) - is something to which I still adhere.

There's a certain part of the contented majority who love anybody who is worth a billion dollars.

In all life one should comfort the afflicted, but verily, also, one should afflict the comfortable, and especially when they are comfortably, contentedly, even happily wrong.

The problem of the modern economy is not a failure of a knowledge of economics; it's a failure of a knowledge of history.