John J. Tierney (Jack)

In 1963 a group of scholars at the Foreign Policy Research Institute, University of Pennsylvania, (where I was a student), published a book on political unification, Building the Atlantic World. The principal authors, Robert Strausz-Hupe, William R. Kintner, James E. Dougherty, enlisted a host of other specialists in attempting to

“Great minds have purposes, others have wishes.” - Washington Irving If one were to isolate a single word in all language as the “most important” what would it be? I would choose “purpose” but that, of course, is purely subjective. The dictionary definition of purpose is “the reason for which