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 or Tyranny by the Majority vs. Protection of a Minority

China’s Development vs. India or the USA — Is it all about building airports and avoiding foreign entanglements and Does Freedom Matter?

Affirmative Action vs. Meritocracy

Freakonomics and Random Walk Theories

Do Government Incentives Work vs. The Nanny State

Domestic Monopolies vs. Worldwide Competition

Zionism vs. Post-Zionism and the Theories of 1, 2 and 3 State Solutions

Law of Unintended Consequences

Japanese Management Ideas of the 1980’s

Communism and the Kibbutz — Did Privatization Revitalize these Ideals?

God the Almighty vs. Biblical Criticism and what about the Bible Codes?

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