America is dealing death, not only to people of other lands, but to its own people. So say the most thoughtful and passionate of our youth, from Cali… - Charles A. Reich

The American dream was not, at least at the beginning, a rags-to-riches type of narrow materialism.

As Reagan conservatism is becoming less popular, people are asking: Where do we go from here? We can also ask: Does the last era of liberalism provide any indications as to where we might or should go from here? The liberalism of the nineteen-thirties emerged after the catastrophe that resulted from the conservatism of the nineteen-twenties. Conservatives had been in power for a long time, and ended by nearly wrecking the country. Liberals came along and performed a rescue operation. Ironically, they are credited with saving the establishment, which they surely did.

We seem to be living in a society that no one created and that no one wants.