Hayek wrote this passage in 1967, a period in which the United States was experiencing robust growth and had an unemployment rate below 4 percent.

FORBES: Hayek: "General Unemployment" Requires Easy Money

On December 20, 2007, the CEOs of nineteen major American companies wrote a letter to the House and Senate leadership urging passage of the FTA with Colombia.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: We must stand with Colombia

Luhrmann was interested in this frightening passage, and she wanted to know who wrote it, when, and so on. (Some scholars think that it refers to the Babylonian conquest.) She was gently chided by the group.

NEWYORKER: Seeing and Believing