I really enjoy Brill’s books.  Good writing, credible content, thoughtful analysis, and important topics.  (And, he actually responded to an email I sent him, and did so in under 24 hours!) Class Warfare treats the dismal state of the public education system in the...

Paradoxically, many of the pictures I found for a federal government shutdown show the Capitol with a closed sign.  Congress gets paid during a shutdown. Threats of shutdowns … and, of course, shutdowns themselves … are a tremendous waste of tax dollars … yours and mine. ...

I was an “early adopter” of Rolling Stone magazine.  I can’t remember how I discovered it, but it appealed to my interest in music and people. It still keeps me young and current. Fong-Torres was senior editor at Rolling Stone, almost from its beginning.  Among others,...

The Spirit of Service: At its peak, the Bell System employed a million people.  Our job was providing telephone service and keeping it working.  We believed we were providing a public service.  Telephone service was vitally important to the well-being of our Customers: ...