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...important part of the history that has yet to happen is the future intellectual climate of the country and in particular the temper of the book-writing classes. History struck an extraordinary long-range blow at Andrew Jackson, President from 1829 to 1837, when in 1975 a Berkeley political scientist named Michael Rogin published a book Fathers and Children: Andrew Jackson and the Subjugation of the American Indian. Rogin says he was writing under "the sway of the Viet Nam War." He sees Jackson as little more than a vicious Indian hater, "presiding over American expansion and Indian destruction," presaging...
...Calvinist or Marxist could conceive, it is proper faith of a century in which men seem to get better at doing just about everything while events get more and more absurdly out of control. Revealed through the agency of a Viennese Jew who alternately wore the hats of humanist, scientist, prophet and pariah, psychoanalysis is a creed without a salvation. There are no elect, and the priesthood does not claim to be holier than the laity. Adhered to by few, it is understood by fewer still. Ultimately, it probably satisfies...
...admired people like Adlai Stevenson: he was my friend and I was his representative in Minnesota. Later I had close contacts with the advisers of President Kennedy. I personally have a great deal of gratitude for the chance given me [in the U.S.] to grow up as a scientist and professor. Not only is my wife American, but my children are American-born, and many, many of my friends are American...
Stephen Jay Gould, professor of Geology, studiously undermines the more famous research of this genre in The Mismeasure of Man. He examines past studies of human being's intellitence with the perspicuity expected of a careful scientist, showing where other researchers have erred before. He acquired the data that others had used to reach racist conclusions, recalculated the computations and reveals the mistakes and incorrect assumptions. Gould's reopening of the 19th- and early-20th-century studies could help close an era of racist preconceptions about intelligence...
Takfir wa Hijra is only one of an unknown number of fanatical Islamic groups that permeate wide sections of Egyptian society. Says Political Scientist Ali E. Hillal Dessouki of Cairo University: "My hunch is that there are many groups of ten or 15 people, organized into very small cells. They are clandestine, secretive, underground and not public. They are certainly amassing weapons...