Great Ideas, Experiments and Failures of the Past Century Which of these ideas worked or failed and/or is the jury still out on them? Outline of a college course, conceived December 2007
Mutually Assured Deterrence vs. Armageddon Theory Bernard Francois Revel: How Democracies Perish Jeanne Kirkpatrick: Authoritarianism vs. Totalitarianism Free Markets vs. Public Goods, Protectionism and Command Economies The End of History and the Conflict of Civilizations Pan-Arabism vs. Shiite/Sunni Realities Rule