John Dewey: “The power of “bread and the circus” to divert attention from public matters is an old story.”

So to the patent objection that the state is a very modern institution, it is replied that while modernity is a property of those structures which go by the name of states, yet all history, or almost all, records the exercise of analogous…

If the technological age can provide mankind with a firm and general basis of material security, it will be absorbed in a humane age.

But the wingèd words of conversation in immediate intercourse have a vital import lacking in the fixed and frozen words of written speech.

Systematic and continuous inquiry into all the conditions which affect association and their dissemination in print is a precondition of the creation of a true public.