In fact, violence as a symbol of our growing irrationality has had an increasing role in activity for its own sake, when no possible justification co….

No slave system has ever been able to continue to function on the slaves provided by its own biological reproduction because the rate of human reprod….

The powers of financial capitalism had a far-reaching aim, nothing less than to create a world system of financial control in private hands able to d….

Capitalism might be defined, if we wish to be scientific, as a form of economic organization motivated by the pursuit of profit within a price struct….

Islam, the third in historical sequence of the ethical monotheistic religions of the Near East, was very successful in establishing its monotheism, b….

To this day the Arab influence is evident in southern Italy, northern Africa and, above all, in Spain..

The very idea that there is some kind of conflict between science and religion is completely mistaken. Science is a method for investigating experien….

A society is a group whose members have more relationships with one another then they do with outsiders..

I came into history from a primary concern with mathematics and science. This has been a tremendous help to me as a person and as a historian, althou….

There were people who said the Society of Cincinnati in the American revolution, of which George Washington was one of the shining lights, was a bran….

Western civilization presents one of the most difficult tasks for historical analysis, because it is not yet finished, because we are a part of it an….

The basis of social relationships is reciprocity: if you cooperate with others, others will cooperate with you..

Thus, the use of fiat money is more justifiable in financing a depression than in financing a war..

For years I have told my students that I been trying to train executives rather than clerks. The distinction between the two is parallel to the disti….

The problem of meaning today is the problem of how the diverse and superficially self-contradictory experiences of men can be put into a consistent p….

When goods are exchanged between countries, they must be paid for by commodities or gold. They cannot be paid for by the notes, certificates, and che….

The hope for the twentieth century rests on recognition that war and depression are man-made, and needless. They can be avoided in the future by turn….

For the first time in its history, Western Civilization is in danger of being destroyed internally by a corrupt, criminal ruling cabal which is cente….

The process by which civilization, as an abstract entity distinct from the societies in which it is embodied, dies or is reborn is a very significant….