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...Sept. 11 effect was far more subtle and far more profound. It returned America to a world of danger, a world we thought we had escaped, perhaps for good, with the end of the cold war. For two generations after the late 1930s, Americans faced one great existential threat after another--world war, cold war, the threat of nuclear war. During the age of anxiety, anyone aspiring to serious national office had to pass the elementary test: seriousness on national security...
...said that he had been shaped by living through Soviet leader Joseph Stalin’s purges in the 1930s, the Nazi occupation of his home district during World War II and the country’s rebuilding period following the war. He also cited Nikita S. Khrushchev’s celebrated “Secret Speech” of 1956, in which he criticized Stalin for an overly repressive regime. Gorbachev said this set the youth of the time on the path that eventually led to reform...
...Jacoby’s mind, the true public intellectuals were a group of intellectuals who lived in New York City in the 1930s, dwelling in tiny apartments and earning a living whatever way they could in order to keep writing columns and books on the great social questions of the time. They addressed society’s most pressing problems—and offered solutions. Today’s academics, Jacoby argued, address highly specialized issues that don’t translate into practical solutions...
...Jesse did more than anyone to establish the characteristics of these in the 1930s. He will most probably be remembered for that,” said Jonathan E. Grindlay, chair of Harvard’s astronomy department...
Fortunately, today unlike the 1930s and 1940s, Jews are not helpless. There is Israel. There is America and there are good people like Summers, who are ready to stand up and say no to the evil of anti-Semitism...