People Know Elections, Like Television Commercials, Are

The Trauma Of 9/11 Stimulated Infinite Possibilities For Worry - Some Quite Plausible, But Most Inspired By Remote What-if Fantasies. A Society Bingeing On Fear Makes Itself Vulnerable To Far More Profound Forms Of Destruction Than Terror Attacks. The "terrorism War", Like A Nostalgic Echo Of The Cold War, Is Using These Popular Fears To Advance A Different Agenda - The Re-engineering Of American Life Through Permanent Mobilization.

The Do-it-yourself Version Of Pensions Is A Flop, As Many Americans Have Painfully Learned.

Efficiency Obliterates Identity

In The Deregulated Realm Of Us Banking And Finance, Crime Does Occasionally Pay For Its Foul Deeds, Not In Prison Time But By Making Modest Rebates To The Victims.

Folks In The Bottom Half Of The Economy Are Already Squeezed Hard. They Will Be Bloodied And Bankrupt If Economic Policy Inadvertently Induces A Recession.