Abstract

On the inside jacket of his book George Friedman is identified as an assistant professor of political science at Dickinson College who received his Ph.D. from Cornell. That exhausts my knowledge of the author. From the contents of his book, however, I would infer that the courses he offers deviate from the usual political science fare of model building and conceptual games; that they speak to genuine issues of Marxism and modern society: the crises of social systems, the madness of reason, the import of religious and Utopian visions, and so on. I would even hazard that he is a stimulating teacher, and probably a fine fellow.