24 August 2010

Lesson from the Weimar Republic

Walt on how he became an academic:

The lesson I took from [Professor Gordon] Craig's lecture was that when intellectuals abandon liberal principles, disengage from politics, and generally abdicate their role as "truth-tellers" for society at large, it is easy for demagogues to play upon human fears and lead a society over the brink to disaster.

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