Twenty-three years ago, my sister Becky
lost her son in an accident as he walked home from school. Is there any greater
sadness for any parent than the early death of a child? I think not. This is …
In 1930, legendary economist John
Maynard Keyes wrote an essay about our future lifestyle in the twenty-first
century. He predicted that industrial progress would reduce our workload to 15 hours
a …
Four score and eleven years ago—in 1928—George
Washington Hill had a problem: he
wanted more women to smoke cigarettes. But smoking was scorned as a crutch for
“fallen women and prostitutes.” He was …