Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...look at the disastrous social programs in the U.S. however, might be able to provide a more objective view of the subject. Since 1965, anti-poverty programs and other wealth transfers have continued to explode in cost while bringing people out of poverty is critical to human survival, but increasing the "minimum wage" is not the key to help the needy...
...look at the disastrous social programs in the U.S., however, might be able to provide a more objective view of the subject. Since 1965, anti-poverty programs and other wealth transfers have continued to explode in cost while poverty rate kept rising. Most people agree that bringing people out of poverty is critical to human survival, but increasing the "minimum wage" is not the key to help the needy...
Alexander T. Nguyen '99 is a social studies concentrator in Pforzheimer House. His column appears on alternate Mondays...
...exquisite detail. Robert A. Heinlein, for instance, was a hugely popular SF writer but of a surprisingly gloomy and gothic cast. His prediction for the late 20th century was summed up briskly: "Considerable technical advance during this period, accompanied by a gradual deterioration of mores, orientation and social institutions, terminating in mass psychosis." It was hard to watch the Clinton impeachment trial without feeling ol' Bob was on to something...
...thing is certain about the century (or even the millennium) ahead. The pace of discovery is sure to be even faster than it is today and the social and ethical dilemmas created by the exploitation of new knowledge even more haunting. Our understanding of the world has deepened at an accelerating rate since the beginning of modern science 500 years ago. Our century, for example, has had the wit to ask how the universe is constructed, how even the tiniest particles of matter move and how life manages to exist in the face of all the odds against...