Professor Elam

Robert Samuelson takes a look at George Clark’s new book. Clark suggests that societal culture has a great deal to do with the adoption of new models, ways of thinking and ways of getting things done.  Hence it may be that societies that are resistant to change, won’t!  There is nothing really revolutionary about that and it may explain why so many want to come to the United States. 

Victor Davis Hanson wrote a column a while back noting that a wide variety of characters were using a park in California. Yet there were no riots, no ethnic cleansing campaigns, no religious intonations calling for death to the infidels over a matter of clothing for example.  And that’s the difference-tolerance.  And so Africa and the Middle East remain what they are and Europe and America remain what they are, and probably will.