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The article states that visiting Europe today is like visiting a museum where the tourists are awestruck but where the natives have lost the moral secrets of their ancestors. The most important reason for Europe's sourness is the imminent demise of "the European idea," social democracy--the heavily regulated womb-to-tomb security promised by the welfare state. The Europeans call it democracy, but it is actually a new soft despotism administered by a motherly, smothering political class. Generation by generation, Europeans seem to be losing contact with the classic sources of European culture- with religion, with the highly moral worldview of classical Greece and Rome. Above all, so heavy are mandatory social costs on businesses that millions of Europeans who might have be- come entrepreneurs and created new jobs for others fear certain failure under the current system.

This article reports that communist countries in Eastern Europe need the radio station Radio Free Europe (RFE) more than ever. No radio service could ever be worthy of such an audience, which endured a regime more thorough in its refined torments than any in history. But RFE tried to bring such brave people sound information, nourishment of soul and the tradition of liberty. RFE worked for freedom around the clock. Its work is not over. Today its broadcasters are heroes in their own lands. More than that, they are role models for their hometown journalists. A plan is afoot in Washington to shut down RFE in those three countries. Some administration officials are even trying to end independent surrogate radio altogether by putting all radios tinder State Department control at the U.S. Information Agency.

Presents the author's opinions on the economic policies in the United States. Views on democratic capitalism; Discussion on economic systems; Views on capitalism and democracy in the U.S.

This article presents information on political and socio-economic conditions in the U.S. during the 1960s. Information is presented on the triumph of liberalism in the smooth, knowing, professional style of Americans for Democratic Action. By late 1968, all the passion had exploded. The entire decade was given name and reputation by the last two years. Details are presented about polling data which show that young people 18 to 29 were more conservative than their elders. In these years the country was exposed to the radical left. There was disillusionment with academic response to ideological totalitarianism.

Studies the political implication of American individualism. Theory that American individualism will undermine democracy and lead to a soft tyranny; Sociologist Robert Bellah's call for the strengthening of the mediating structures of the American life; Issues about American culture discussed in the book "Habits of the Heart," by Bellah and associates.

Discusses the proceedings of the American Enterprise Institute conference on "Liberation Theology and the Liberal Society". Speech by liberation theology founding father Hugo Assmann; Observation that liberation theology has entered a new phase; Theologians' concern to make democracy work to alleviate the oppression of the poor; Elitism of the Latin American Left; Requirement of respect for popular consent and grassroots organizing.

The article criticizes the involvement of the National Council of Churches in promoting international socialism. It enumerates several actions taken by the Council that favor socialism such as the preference of socialist methods to the activity of free corporations. It comments on the defense raised by the Council of its fundamental choice in political economy. It discloses the failure of the Left to urge the Council to practice self-criticism and not blame the Institute for Religion and Democracy for its woes.

The article explains the author's support for a democratic capitalist society. Not being a liberal nor a conservative means moderation that promotes the inventiveness, dynamism, mobility and sheer energy of democratic capitalism. A person supporting the ideals of democratic capitalism is also against both the actions of both the radical Left and the Right, which most often not, are unified in attacking liberalism.