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October 1997

Campaigns, Commercials, and Computers

Television has helped turn politics into a money game. The path toward righteousness may lie through another technology.

By Samuel C. Florman

The other day, as I was reading yet another cautionary op-ed essay about campaign financing, it occurred to me that when it comes to politics, engineers are pretty virtuous folk. Then, scarcely a moment later, with a sudden pang of guilt, I thought: Yes, but if it weren't for engineers, we wouldn't be in such a mess in the first place.

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