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In our time, the quest for world order will require relating the perceptions of societies whose realities have largely been self-contained.
“Woe to the statesman whose arguments for entering a war are not as convincing at its end as they were at the beginning,”
In every era, humanity produces demonic individuals and seductive ideas of repression. The task of statesmanship is to prevent their rise to power and sustain an international order capable of deterring them if they do achieve it.
Can democracy avoid an evolution toward a demagogic outcome based on emotional mass appeal rather than the reasoned process the Founding Fathers imagined?
