THE NEW YORK TIMES, section 11 only (Sunday edition), December 9, 1928

* George Bernard Shaw lecture
* Fabian Society - British socialist organization
* "The Future of Western Civilization"

The front page of this section 11 only has a nice banner headline: "SHAW PEERS DEEPLY INTO THE FURTURE; As Prophet of Western Civilization, He Sees the Main Struggle Between a Narrow Science and a Broad Culture, With Labor in Control of Government and Big Business in Command of Industry" with nice illustration. Text takes up the rest of the front page here. Nice for display.
Other topics throughout. Complete section 11 only with all 24 pages, a little irregular along the spine, nice condition.

Background: This front-page feature captures a critical inflection point in interwar geopolitical thought, capturing how George Bernard Shaw and the Fabian Society accurately anticipated the structural framework of the modern Western welfare state. Delivered just a year before the 1929 Wall Street crash would shatter global faith in unregulated laissez-faire capitalism, Shaw’s lecture outlined a middle path that rejected both Soviet-style violent revolution and unbridled corporate dominance. By predicting a future where "Labor" managed social governance while "Big Business" drove industrial efficiency, Shaw effectively blueprinted the mixed-economy model—the synthesis of democratic socialism and regulated capitalism—that would define post-WWII Western Europe. Furthermore, his warning of a clash between a "narrow science" and "broad culture" was remarkably prophetic; it foreshadowed the modern technocratic age, signaling the danger of a society increasingly governed by specialized, algorithmic, and technological efficiency at the expense of humanistic ethics and cultural cohesion.