While I know some women who are stunningly sanguine when they're pregnant, I dissolve into a total mess. What normally appears sturdy turns fragile: the economy, the climate, humanity's baseline social contract.

What cops are hired to do is to control people who will not abide by the social contract.

In our social contract, we have provisions that see to it that you take care of people who need some help.

America's 'social contract' is equal opportunity... yet we have failed in achieving that seminal goal.

Wall Street sees a social fabric or social contract as inefficiencies, which need to be removed.

As Ludwig von Mises conclusively demonstrated in 1912, money does not and cannot originate by order of the State or by some sort of social contract agreed upon by all citizens; it must always originate in the processes of the free market.