From the Prison of the 'Isms'

摘要

Mister Dooley, a fictional newspaper character at the last turn of the century, described a fanatic as someone who viewed himself as "doing what the Lord would do—if He only had the facts." The century that followed was beset by just such grandiose fanaticism, and it became the bloodiest in all of human history. Will we see a sequel in the century to come? Communism and Nazism are gone, but their suffixes remain. The biggest of the big political questions is whether other malignant "isms" can be held in check. The health of the new century hinges on the answer.