professor elshtain. >> it was a group of terrorists, primarily german, who attempted to put together marx and freud to come up with a critical theory that would enable them to, in our current language, the construct much of what was going on in culture at the time. i would be loath to see any of them as prophets, and i would not put them in the same breath as the huber profits -- as the hebrew prophets or civic pro phets. i do not think they saw themselves in that light either. they saw themselves trying to pennant -- penetrate it the dynamics that move persons and cultures and come up with some sort of mix. i cannot think of a single instance where they laid out an idea of a better society, other than one that was somehow less repressed. and less oppressed in the marxist sense. i would not put them there. let me say something about the future of american culture. it strikes me that -- it is very difficult to talk about the future of anything, and less to understand -- unless you understand the present. a good bit of weight of the discussion today has been on how we get a handle on w