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Suggests that there are similarities between the United States and the Soviet Union. Description of both superpowers as barbaric for different reasons; Image of America as invading the empire of the spirit with machines, and as replacing the state with with a random collection of people in pursuit of individual greed; Description of communism as an alternative mode of barbarism; Impact of the energy and organization of the U.S. and the Soviet Union on the more passive nations; Opinion of West Europeans and Asians about the U.S. and the Soviet Union; Discussion of the struggle between the two countries for world influence.

Reflects on the sphere of influence of the late U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Marshall. Information on his tradition of judicial nationalism; Affirmation of the power of judicial review; Stand of Marshall on capitalism.

Comments on the publication of the book "An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution," by historian Charles A. Beard in the U.S. Response to new movements for social justice; Emphasis on the influence of economics on the formation and ratification of the U.S. Constitution; Examination of the interests and experience of each delegate of the Constitutional Convention; Reaction of politicians to the book; Influence of the book on other political literature; Evaluation of the historical method of Beard; Focus on the basic struggle between capitalism and democracy.

In the article, the author discusses the freedom of opinion. According to him, freedom is not laissez faire. It has taken people decades of social blundering to understand that economic freedom in the sense of the unregulated decisions of an irresponsible capitalism is no longer possible. We had better face the fact that the opinion industries are as much "affected with a public interest" as any others. A nation that has decided on a program of democratic control of the rest of its industrial area endangers the entire structure of control by allowing the corporate interests to shape public opinion at will.

The article discusses books and authors. We are a perverse lot. Writer Thurman Arnold has written a witty, learned book, "The Folklore of Capitalism," full of principles and examples, to prove for all time that learned books full of principles and examples are feckless and insubstantial things, mere symbols to mediate between our lingering illusions and the advancing world of reality. And having been told that learning and theorizing are so much eyewash, we flock in hordes to buy and devour this particular offering.

Focuses on the strategy adopted by Germany against the Soviet Union. Role of Nazi dictator of Germany, Adolf Hitler's army in corroding the strength of capitalism and plunging the world into a chaos out of which anything might emerge; Change in the propaganda adopted by Hitler; Reports that the energy that was channeled into "peace mobilization" will now be channeled into making lease-lend a reality for the Soviet Union; Opportunism about the Nazi-Soviet agreement; View Germany and the Soviet Union both as totalitarian and despotisms.

Focuses on the major errors of analysis committed by Marxians since the Russian Revolution. Process of continuous revision of the Marxism theory and tactics; Underestimation of the strength of capitalism in the Marxian theory; Problem in estimation of the revolutionary character the proletariat; Mistake in assessment of the strength of the middle class and reckoning of its direction; Misjudgment about the strength of the nationalist idea; Fault in theory of human nature in politics.

Focuses on the author's concerns for political, social and economic crisis, which have brought all chaos. Criticism of the author that capitalism, which was once a principle of growth, has become only a principle for the retention of past growth; Failure of the technological innovation to bring economic solution; Opinion that people have abandoned the ancient virtues because of fear of strange and false gods; Common belief of Marxists and Literalists about the unity of economics and politics; Argument pertaining to the widespread of social pessimism; Comments of the author on the death of human civilization.