We now live during a period of great uncertainty and turbulence in society. I have spent a lifetime researching and writing in the area of violence against authority.  My work covers many types of violent behaviors, but particularly, it has been focused on violence against police in form of general municipal police officer assaults, attacks on state law enforcement officers, and assaults on officer during robbery and robbery-in-progress and ambush attacks. As such, we struggl

Futurist studies claim that the characteristics of the workplace in the twenty-first century will be vastly different from what most employees find today. These differences will be based, in part on the continued growth of job specification; the spin-off effects of basis science and research that will result in new technologies; and an increase in the growth of employment in the service and knowledge e-sector, including health care, transportation, retail sales, and governmen

Pope Francis encourages economists, politicians, corporate, religious, and civic leadership to think about and evaluate the relations between profit and a so called free-market economy, and global selfishness, poverty, and hunger. His admonition resonates more clearly with the ethical and moral imperatives of the classical writers than with the neo-classical economists’ view on economic structures and remedies. For instance, do our economic pillars promote happiness and commu

As a youthful graduate student, I recall how interested I became in utopian literature and reading the Utopia of Sir Thomas More, some of the communalists, and even those who espoused one or another societal design that was anarchistic, socialistic or even that of primitive communism. The book that left a lasting effect was the dystopian society imagined by George Orwell’s 1984 , (1949), a democratic socialism essay, and his strident opposition to anything totalitarian. I al

“It was the best of times; it was the worst of times….” Charles Dickens penned this famous phrase in the 18 th  century in reference to the political and economic turmoil narrated in  A Tale of Two Cities  as Paris and London faced the dual American and French Revolutions. Just a few months ago, if a historian visited the United States, s/he would have learned about the great economic prowess of its economy, at least for some, its military strengths, high GDP, low unemploymen