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Appropriately enough, then, Richard Crossman has become a power theorist. The Godkin Lectures glorified the consolidation in the British polity, but they cast a wistful sidelong glance at the American courts and Constitution. "The British need more rule of law, not less." Corpsman wished to clarify the advantages of the federal system and written constitutions. Laws and courts could defend the public from a grasping bureaucracy...
That statement sums up Friedman. He is the rare theorist whose influence is best measured not by the devotion of his followers?though that can be extreme?but by the extent to which his ideas have altered the thinking of his opponents. The mixture of supreme self-confidence and good-humored needling expresses the personality that makes some of Friedman's sharpest critics consider themselves close personal friends. One admirer, Labor Secretary George Shultz, quotes a former colleague at the University of Chicago as saying: "I wish I were as sure of anything as Milton is about everything...
...troubled '60s, Wayne the political theorist and Wayne the film maker formed a merger. After mulling over the drama for 14 years, Wayne produced, directed and starred in The Alamo ? as Davy Crockett. The picture was about the Texans v. the troops of Santa Anna, but it was also, he said, "to remind people not only in America but everywhere that there were once men and women who had the guts to stand up for the things they believed...
...revolutionaries' aim in 1918 was to take over Berlin, where the police chief was an outright sympathizer and bands of sullen unemployed workers stood ready to riot. Despite warnings from the astute theorist Rosa Luxemburg that revolution was premature, the Spartacists kept urging revolt in the streets. In January 1919, they got what they asked for: an uprising. The desperate Socialists, who had done their best to cooperate with the far left, turned to the far right for help. Remnants of the Kaiser's army, informally organized into Freikorps, marched into Berlin, ruthlessly smashing the rebellion and executing...
...university has finally come up with a very effective-and invidious-device," said William Kunstler, a lawyer for the students. At least a dozen schools wrote to Columbia for details. "From the university's point of view, the technique is perfect," said L. D. Nachman, a political theorist at the City University of New York. "It will work. It really will work...