From Saint-Simon to Silicon Valley, the urge to forecast the future has always masked a struggle over who gets to define it.

In June 1950, Senator Margaret Chase Smith criticized Joseph McCarthy's anticommunist campaigns. She was the first of his colleagues to challenge his Red Scare rhetoric.

Dr. Karl Menninger on the crime of punishment.

West Germany’s “do no harm” approach to environmental protection—which became known as the precautionary principle—was revolutionary in its time.