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THIS ARTICLE, ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED IN THE FIRST ISSUE OF THIS JOURNAL, WAS CONTRIBUTED BY THE WORLD-FAMOUS PHYSICIST ALBERT EINSTEIN. IT IS REPRINTED TO COMMEMORATE THE FIRST ISSUE OF THIS PUBLICATION'S FIFTIETH YEAR. THE ARTICLE EXAMINES SOCIALISM FROM A SCIENTIFIC PERSPECTIVE, WITH SOCIALISM BEING DIRECTED TOWARDS A SOCIAL-ETHICAL END. EINSTEIN ASSERTS THAT THE RELATIONSHIP OF THE INDIVIDUAL TO SOCIETY, WITH THE INDIVIDUAL BECOMING MORE CONSCIOUS THAN EVER OF HIS DEPENDENCE UPON SOCIETY, CONSTITUTES THE ESSENCE OF THE CRISIS OF OUR TIME. HE ALSO CONTENDS THAT THE CRIPPLING OF INDIVIDUALS IS THE WORST EVIL OF CAPITALISM, AND THAT THE ONLY WAY TO ELIMINATE GRAVE EVILS IS THROUGH THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A SOCIALIST ECONOMY, ACCOMPANIED BY AN EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM WHICH IS ORIENTED TOWARD SOCIAL GOALS.

IN THIS ESSAY EINSTEIN DESCRIBES WHAT HE CONSIDERS TO BE THE EVILS OF CAPITALISM, INCLUDING PRODUCTION FOR PROFIT, NOT FOR USE, WHICH, IN CONJUNCTION WITH COMPETITION IS RESPONSIBLE FOR AN INSTABILITY IN THE ACCUMULATION AND UTILIZATION OF CAPITAL AND EMPLOYMENT. EINSTEIN CONSIDERS THE WORST EVIL OF CAPITALISM TO BE THE CRIPPLING OF INDIVIDUALS THROUGHOUT THE EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM THOUGH INCULCATION OF AN EXAGGERATED COMPETETIVE ATTITUDE WHICH TRAINS CHILDREN TO WORSHIP ACQUISITIVE SUCCESS.

Cover Page -- Title Page -- Contents -- Essays in Science -- Title Page -- Preface to the New Edition -- Preface to Abridged Edition -- Publisher's Note -- Translator's Note -- Principles of Research -- Inaugural Address to the Prussian Academy of Sciences -- On Scientific Truth -- On the Method of Theoretical Physics -- Johannes Kepler -- The Mechanics of Newton and Their Influence on the Development of Theoretical Physics -- Clerk Maxwell's Influence on the Evolution of the Idea of Physical Reality -- Niels Bohr -- On the Theory of Relativity -- What Is the Theory of Relativity? -- The Problem of Space, Ether, and the Field in Physics -- Notes on the Origin of the General Theory of Relativity -- The Cause of the Formation of Meanders in the Courses of Rivers and of the So-Called Beer's Law -- The Flettner Ship -- Relativity and the Ether -- Address at Columbia University -- Letters to Solovine -- Title Page -- Preface by Neil Berger -- Introduction by Maurice Solovine -- "I often think of …" -- "I have again moved …" -- "I offer my heartfelt …" -- "Your apologies, though very …" -- "I was elated over …" -- "I am very glad …" -- "I am very glad to …" -- "The contents and method …" -- "A further characteristic of …" -- "Against the concept of …" -- "Thank you for the …" -- "I am not eager …" -- "I am returning the …" -- "Many thanks for the …" -- "Much work and the …" -- "How glad I will …" -- "I expect to arrive …" -- "Hearty thanks for having …" -- "Included herewith are the …" -- "It was wonderful in …" -- "You do not have …" -- "You will receive by …" -- "Today I am giving …" -- "I have looked everywhere …" -- "I needed some time …" -- "My field theory is …" -- "Herewith the contract with …" -- "You impatient scoundrel!" -- "By the end of …" -- "I am firmly convinced …" -- "I could not manage …" -- "Nothing again concerning the …".

At forty, Sarah Einstein is forced to face her own shortcomings. In the wake of an attempted sexual assault, she must come to terms with the facts that she is not tough enough for her job managing a local drop-in center for adults with mental illness and that her new marriage is already faltering. Just as she reaches her breaking point, she meets Mot , a homeless veteran who lives a life dictated by frightening delusion. She is drawn to the brilliant ways he has found to lead his own difficult life; traveling to Romania to get his teeth fixed because the United States doesn't offer dental care

Cover Page -- Title Page -- Table of Contents -- 1. Why Socialism? (1949) -- 2. The Negro Question (1946) -- 3. Science and Society (1935) -- 4. Towards a World Government (1946) -- 5. The Way Out (1946) -- 6. On Receiving the One World Award (1948) -- 7. Science and Civilization (1933) -- 8. A Message to Intellectuals (1948) -- 9. Open Letter to the General Assembly of the United Nations (1947) -- 10. Dr. Einstein's Mistaken Notions-An Open Letter from Sergei Vavilov, A. N. Frumkin, A. F. Joffe, and N. N. Semyonov (1947) -- A Reply to the Soviet Scientists (1948) -- 11. For an Organization of Intellectual Workers (1945) -- 12. "Was Europe a Success?" (1934) -- 13. At a Gathering for Freedom of Opinion (1936) -- 14. Atomic War or Peace (I-1945 -- II-1947) -- 15. The War Is Won but Peace Is Not (1945) -- 16. The Menace of Mass Destruction (1947) -- 17. The Schools and the Problem of Peace (1934) -- 18. On Military Service (1934) -- 19. Military Intrusion in Science (1947) -- The Military Mentality -- 20. International Security (1933) -- 21. Isaac Newton (1942) -- 22. Johannes Kepler (1949) -- 23. Marie Curie in Memoriam (1935) -- 24. Max Planck in Memoriam (1948) -- 25. Paul Langevin in Memoriam (1947) -- 26. Walther Nernst in Memoriam (1942) -- 27. Paul Ehrenfest in Memoriam (1934) -- 28. Mahatma Gandhi (1939) -- 29. Carl von Ossietzky (1946) -- 30. Why Do They Hate the Jews? (1938) -- Just What Is a Jew? -- Where Oppression Is a Stimulus -- 31. The Dispersal of European Jewry (1948) -- 32. Let's Not Forget (1934) -- 33. Unpublished Preface to a Blackbook (1945) -- 34. The Goal of Human Existence (1943) -- 35. Our Debt to Zionism (1938) -- 36. To the Heroes of the Battle of the Warsaw Ghetto (1944) -- 37. Before the Monument to the Martyred Jews of the Warsaw Ghetto (1948) -- 38. The Calling of the Jews (1936) -- 39. Moses Maimonides (1935)

In a society overrun by commercial clutter, religion has become yet another product sold in the consumer marketplace, and faiths of all kinds must compete with a myriad of more entertaining and more convenient leisure activities. Brands of Faith argues that in order to compete effectively faiths have had to become brands ? easily recognizable symbols and spokespeople with whom religious prospects can make immediate connections. Mara Einstein shows how religious branding has expanded over the past twenty years to create a blended world of commerce and faith where the sacred becomes secular and