A collection of my essays from 2014 comprising contemporary history viewed from a personal perspective. Societies and civilizations are always a mix of good and bad trends. Good government with good leadership can address those challenges while bad governments tend to disregard them or even regard evil as virtue. I hope that the challenges are overcome with complete border security, cessation of printing free money loans at zero interest to large banks, better Wall Street regulation and so forth. I also hope the world of security and ecological challenges have adequate responses and that democracy can be recovered from corporatism and incipient plutocracy. I wrote on some of those issues in the essays of this volume.
