Technology means the systematic application of scientific or other organized knowledge to practical tasks.

Ideas are inherently conservative. They yield not to the attack of other ideas but to the massive onslaught of circumstance with which they cannot contend.

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

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.

Total physical and mental inertia are highly agreeable, much more so than we allow ourselves to imagine. A beach not only permits such inertia but enforces it, thus neatly eliminating all problems of guilt. It is now the only place in our overly active world that does.

No intelligence system can predict what a government will do if it doesn't know itself.

There's no question that in my lifetime, the contrast between what I called private affluence and public squalor has become very much greater.