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The classics appear conspicuously in the pamphlet wars of the American Revolution, though in the opinion of Bernard Bailyn (written many years ago), their presence is "window-dressing" and their influence "superficial." They are "everywhereillustrative, not determinative, of thought" (my italics). Up the scale in influence comes Enlightenment rationalism, also "superficial" but only "at times"—that removes the foreigners, ancient and modern. Then, further up the scale are English common-law writers, "powerfully influential" though still insufficiently "determinative"; above them, a "major source," New England Puritan thought and culture; and finally, at the top, seventeenth-century British "heroes of liberty" and the "early eighteenth-century transmitters of this tradition," e.g. Commonwealth men, Bishop Hoadly. Who would have thought that the bishop of Winchester weighed in the balance more heavily than Plato and Aristotle? Only once in passing does Bailyn even mention Machiavelli, to whom J. G. A. Pocock, Quentin Skinner, and Harvey C. Mansfield would grant large prominence in the development of Revolutionary thought.

This article explores the impact of the new communications technologies on the generation born in the 1980s, the first to grow up under the dominance of the computer. It considers some of the parameters for discussing the close of one era and the beginning of another and draws on the writings of major civilizationist historians and futurologists, including Jacques Ellul, Samuel Huntington, and Romano Guardini.

Labor won't win many key bargaining and organizing struggles unless it develops new international strategies.

Catholic social teaching embraces union rights and the priority of labor over capital.

ABSTRACTThe increasingly complex retail environment faces many inventory management challenges. Automatic identification and data capture (AIDC) technologies have been applied by retailers to address these challenges, with mixed levels of success. This article presents a classroom simulation of a retail environment in which students utilize a bar code scanner and a radio frequency identification (RFID) reader to manage inventory for the simulated retailer. From the simulation, students gain hands‐on experience with these technologies, learn about the advantages and disadvantages of the technologies, and discuss additional cutting‐edge AIDC technology.