people who -- by a man who was the leading public intellectual of the 20th century and was a wilson/roosevelt/kennedyprogressive as he was. and they capture the thinking of progressive opinion. so president wilson -- he held in an elite of gentlemen with elevated ideals must be empowered to preserve stability and righteousness essentially the perspective of the founding fathers. in more recent years, the gentleman are transmuted into the technocratic elite and the action intellectuals of camelot, straussian, neocons and other configurations and without the document prevails. samuel huntington is an example that you heard. on a more hopeful note the popular struggle continues to clip its wings quite impressively in the wake of 1960s activism which had quite an affect on civilizing society and raised the prospects for further progress to a much higher plane. it's one of the reasons it's time of troubles. too much of a civilizing effect. well, what the west sees as the crisis, namely, the financial crisis, that will presumably be patched up somehow or other. but leaving the institutions that created it