Nations Without A Past Are Contradictions In

It Seems That American Patriotism Measures Itself Against An Outcast Group. The Right Americans Are The Right Americans Because They're Not Like The Wrong Americans, Who Are Not Really Americans.

All Professionals, Whether Physicists, Economists Or Musicians, Live By And For Peer Judgment, Even When They Are Being Paid By People Who Cannot Tell The Difference.

N. S. Khrushchev Established His Supremacy In The U.s.s.r. After Post-stalinist Alarums And Excursions (1958-64). This Admirable Rough Diamond, A Believer In Reform And Peaceful Coexistence, Who Incidentally Emptied Stalin's Concentration Camps, Dominated The International Scene In The Next Few Years. He Was Also Perhaps The Only Peasant Boy Ever To Rule A Major State

No Serious Historian Of Nations And Nationalism Can Be A Committed Political Nationalist... Nationalism Requires Too Much Belief In What Is Patently Not So.

Impotence Therefore Faces Both Those Who Believe In What Amounts To A Pure, Stateless, Market Capitalism, A Sort Of International Bourgeois Anarchism, And Those Who Believe In A Planned Socialism Uncontaminated By Private Profit-seeking. Both Are Bankrupt. The Future, Like The Present And The Past, Belongs To Mixed Economies In Which Public And Private Are Braided Together In One Way Or Another. But How? That Is The Problem For Everybody Today, But Especially For People On The Left.