Consists of samples of Dichter's writings and notes arranged by subject rather than chronologically or by project or client. This file presumably allowed Dichter and the Institute's staff to access quickly all of Dichter's more important thoughts on a particular topic. Speeches, drafts, and proposals for studies are all double-filed as part of the "Subject Files". As might be expected, the "Subject Files" cover the heyday of the Institute from 1943 to the mid 1970s and contain some of Dichter's best early writings. The text of a telephone interview with the Wall Street Journal in the wake of the Robert Kennedy assassination captures Dichter's reactions, not only to the assassinations, but also the student upheavals of 1968, and shows him having second thoughts about his earlier pronouncements about violence on television. Files from the 1970s show an early interest in solar energy, both from the purely technical side and in visionaries like Paolo Soleri and his Arcosanti community.