The American Two-party System No one now living in the United States can remember when the contest began between the Democratic and the Republican parties. It has been going on for more than a century...
Sacrificed to Science? Professor Colin Blakemore works at Oxford University Medical School doing research into eye problems and believes that animal research has given humans many benefits: The use of...
Let Your Mind Wander Until recently daydreaming was generally considered either a waste of time or a symptom of neurotic tendencies, and habitual daydreaming was regarded as evidence of maladjustment...
To Sleep, Perchance to Dream So you awoke this morning in a miserable mood. Well, maybe your special dream character didn't put in an appearance last night, or maybe there just weren't enough people d...
Work, Labor, and Play So far as I know, Miss Hannah Arendt was the first person to define the essential difference between work and labor. To be happy, a man must feel, firstly, free and, secondly, im...
The Workman's Compensation How can someone, hour after hour, day after day, year in and year out, tighten approximately the same nut to the same bolt and not go mad? That most working people do not, i...
The Teacher's Last Shocking Lesson A remarkable woman reasons with her killer - and tapes it She used the miniature tape recorder for a graduate-school course she was taking. The device, though, would...
The Seeds of Wrath The world knows a great deal about apartheid. It knows it as a repressive political system which denies political representation to 14,000,000 South Africans because they are not wh...
The Computer and The Poet The essential problem of man in a computerized age remains the same as it has always been. That problem is not solely how to be more productive, more comfortable, more conten...
Changes to Come in U. S. Education The biggest "infrastructure" challenge for the United States in the next decade is not the billions needed for railroads, highways and energy. It is the American sch...
