We have had a few classes by now
- Managing Information Technology with an Indian professor
- Macroeconomics with a Bulgarian professor
- Power and Politics with a French professor, which I am thinking of replacing with another elective

I am really longing for International Political Analysis.

I would like to quote Irving Kristol (part of our readings for today) to see whether it arises thoughts in any of you. This was published in The National Interest of summer 1989, as a response to an article by Francis Fukuyama.
"The only way I know to liberate oneself from the Hegelian sensibility and mode of thought is to go back to Aristotle, and to his understanding that all forms of government - democracy, oligarchy, aristocracy, monarchy, tyranny- are inherently unstable, that all political regimes are inherently transitional, that the stability of all regimes is corrupted by the corrosive power of time. It is no accident-and here Aristotelian rhetoric is in accord with Hegelian- that the 20th century has witnessed a whole series of rebellions against secular-liberal-capitalist democracy. These rebellions have failed, but the sources of such rebellions remain. Which is to say that our American democracy, though seemingly triumphant, is at risk, and it is at risk, precisely because it is the kind of democracy it is, with all the problematics - as distinct from mere problems - that fester within such a democracy. Among such problematics are the longing for community, for spirituality, a growing distrust of technology, the confusion of liberty with license, and many others besides. We may have won the Cold War, which is nice -it's more than nice, it's wonderful. But this means that now the enemy is us, not them."

At the time of the article, Mr Kristol was publisher of the National Interest, and a distinguished fellow at the American Enterprise Institute.