Crane Brinton
The Threat of an Anglo-American Hegemony
A clear, conscious desire to achieve Anglo-American hegemony, domination, world-rule (the term must necessarily be imprecise if it is to be useful) is almost certainly held by relatively few individuals, British or American; and even in a foggier form of general imperialistic aggressiveness it is by no means common among Americans, British, Canadians, Australians, and other English-speaking peoples. There simply isn’t the combination of doctrine, organization and leadership for outright Anglo-American aggression such, for instance, as the Nazis had. For one thing, the two nations still have their own private super-patriots.
Theodore A. Sumberg
Financing of International Institutions
One of the most discouraging aspects of the appearance of the atomic bomb is the inspiration it has given to a whole spate of utopian schemes for world government. These have had the unfortunate result of diverting attention from practicable opportunities for progress in international organization. Students of political science would do better if they bypassed utopianism and got down to the business of examining the many difficult problems associated with the establishment of international organizations which, though more limited in their aims and powers and emotionally less satisfying than utopias, have a future of real consequence to world political and economic development. There is at present a whole basketful of such organizations, some already in operation and some still in draft form, and a comparative and analytical study of these may be a significant enterprise.
Hans Neisser
The Significance of Foreign Trade for Domestic Employment
Only recently, as a consequence of the revolution in monetary and employment theory caused by Keynes, a new element has been injected into the discussion of foreign trade, which has become known as the theory of the "foreign-trade multiplier." Formulated in an analogy to the famous investment multiplier, the foreign-trade multiplier theory contends that changes in the volume of foreign trade generate magnified changes in national income and employment. Thus while traditional theory stressed the function of foreign trade in increasing the average productivity of the resource employed, the new approach claims for foreign trade an ability to bring about an increase in the volume of employment.
Leo Strauss
On a New Interpretation of Plato's Political Philosophy
Professor Wild’s recent book on Plato, Plato’s Theory of Man, is not simply a historical work. His presentation of Plato’s doctrine of man is animated by the zeal of a reformer and is meant to bring about a radical reorientation of the "philosophy of culture." Thoroughly dissatisfied with modern philosophy in all its forms, and unwilling to take refuge in Thomism, Wild turns back to classical philosophy, to the teaching of Plato and Aristotle, as the true teaching. At present very few will be prepared to accept this basic premise. But it is safe to predict that the movement which his book may be said to launch in this country will become increasingly influential and weighty as the years go by.
Kurt Riezler
The Philosopher of History and the Modern Statesman
How to confront the two, the philosopher of history and the modern statesman? In actual life the philosopher of history and the statesman are not too willing to listen to each other—now less than ever, as ours is a time in which action tends to be thoughtless and thought inactive. Furthermore, we use both terms in a loose and flickering sense. Hence both the philosopher of history and the statesman are ambiguous animals.
Felix Kaufmann
Science and the Planned State
Review of book by John R. Baker. New York: Macmillan. 1945. 120 pp.
Leo Gross
America's Role in World Affairs
Review of book by Emil Lengyel. New York: Harper. 1946. 278 pp.
Howard B. White
Arms and Policy 1939-1944
Review of book by Hoffman Nickerson. New York: Putnam. 1945. 356 pp.
Gordon A. Craig
Prussian Military Reforms 1786-1813
Review of book by William O. Shanahan. New York: Columbia University Press. 1945. 233 pp., appendix 35 pp.
Franco Modigliani
The Bogey of Economic Maturity
Review of book by George Terborgh. Chicago: Machinery and Allied Products Institute. 1945. 226 pp.
Norman D. Humphrey
Black Metropolis: A Study of Negro Life in a Northern City
Review of book by St. Clair Drake and Horace R. Cayton. With an introduction by Richard Wright. New York: Harcourt, Brace. 1945. 809 pp.
Albert Salomon
Man and Society: The Scottish Inquiry of the Eighteenth Century
Review of book by Gladys Bryson. Princeton: Princeton University Press. 1945. 287 pp.
Leo Strauss
The Classical Republicans. An Essay in the Recovery of a Pattern of Thought in Seventeenth Century England
Review of book by Northwestern University Studies in the Humanities, No., 9. Evanston: Northwestern University Press. 1945. 225 pp.
Gwan-Yuen Li
A Daughter of Han
Review of book by Ida Pruitt. New Haven: Yale University Press. 1945. 248 pp.