Month: August 1978
Debunking Doomsday
Civilizations don't die by exhausting their resources. They die by consuming the institutions that made their vitality possible.
A Fairly Modest Proposal
How to get all the benefits of Congress—at just a fraction of the cost.
Spiritual Horror
The world's ho-hum response to the Cambodian bloodbath reveals the horrifying subservience of morality to politics.
Confessions of a Washington Reject
A behind-the-scenes look at the bizarre world of Congressional staffs.
Movies
The Boys in Company C; Big Wednesday; Capricorn One
The New Jim Crow Laws
They sound egalitarian and humane, but these racially "neutral" laws have created an American apartheid.
Spotlight: Private Planner
Dick Bjornseth