There's an interesting book about that called The Third Reich and the Ivory Tower, written by Stephen H. Norwood. It has a long discussion about Harvard, and indeed the school's president, James Conant, did block Jewish faculty. He was the one who prevented European Jews from being admitted to the chemistry department - his field - and also had pretty good relations with the Nazis.

The "end of history" has been proclaimed many times, always falsely.

Those of us lucky enough to have a share of privilege in the more free societies should not be asking this question, but doing something to answer it.

The U.S. is different from Europe and other industrial countries.

In 1962, war was avoided by Khrushchev's willingness to accept Kennedy's hegemonic demands.

There are questions as to whether it should even exist. Who should corporations be responsive to, the management of a corporation? Theoretically they are responsive to the shareholders, but I why not to the so - called stakeholders, the work force and the community? Nothing in economic theory opposes that. Those are social and political decisions.

Modern China; one also finds many things that are really quite admirable.