1995 - 1996: The Chautauquan Daily

Transformation to Future Civilization No Easy Task - 07/19/1996
In a June 1996 Wired magazine article, "The War Against the Future," Pew Research Center Director Andrew Kohut told John Heilemann that "in general, people used to be hopeful about the future. They assumed things would get progressively better. Now, they worry intensely about everything related to the future. They sense a sort of ... unraveling." But a group of philosophers, historians, economists and generalists have been gazing into the future with unabashed optimism since the early 1980s. These optimists are the progenitors of the Third Wave and they believe "the human story has only just begun."[read article]

Dionne: Journalists must 'rescue fairness' - 07/02/1996
Journalists filled the pages of the party organ. Journalists aimed for the high calling of being the 'Bible of Democracy.' Journalists challenged the government when they failed to give the whole truth to the public. And now journalists don't know what to do, says E. J. Dionne Jr., who diagnosed the current crisis of conscience within the modern journalist and made his prescription for the future in the Monday morning Amphitheater lecture.[read article]