A lively and scholarly analysis of the history of jazz in its long voyage from a New Orleans barrel-house type of enterprise to global acceptance.

Admittedly imperfect in its historical realization, the noble ideal of the "open society" is still a triumph of the cumulative wisdom of the human race.

This article offers a behavioral analysis of national conflict, in which the socio-psychological mechanisms of the adversary groups escalate ideological passions to the point of violence.