Barry Goldwater

The Great Ideas Today attempts to relate the outstanding events of contemporary life and thought to the accumulated wisdom of the past. To the extent that it succeeds in doing this, it reveals the relevance of the great books to the contemporary scene and throws the light of the great ideas on the...

IntroductionIt has now been ten years since my first political book, "Con-science of a Conservative," was printed. In that decade, tremendous events have occurredsome tragic, some inspiring, some monumental and they have been accompanied by enormous changes, some so great that the President of the...