Epstein Secrets

were it not for the intervention of the International Monetary Fund (IMF= and the World Bank. Everybody knows how countries like Chile in 1975 and Yugoslavia in 1989 and Nicaragu= in 1990 went bankrupt, or, to put it in the language of economists, exper=enced huge inflation and the collapse of the nationa

=graduate. So I was first enticed, almost forced, to study Kant by Alan Mon=efiore. Then after I had done that, with Charles I studied Aristotle and Hegel, and then with Stuart Hampshire, Spi=oza. All of these thinkers were in a way counter-cultural, at odds w=th the mainstream. I found it all fascina

ers. I participated in the Senate censure of California Senator Alan Cranston, the Frank Snepp CIA censorship case, prosecutions involving the former Yugoslavia in the Hague, the defense of Israel against international war crime prosecution, and the investigation of Wiki-Leaks and Julian Assange. I worked on

ring to his extensive background in philosophy, a subject in which he had a PhD. He would always begin his statements by saying, “Kant would say” or “Hegel would say.” One day we were going to be studying an essay by one of the great contemporary philosophers, Robert Nozick. I knew that this particular s

mptions can lead you into as much trouble this quickly. Even in 1989-90, those countries were the exception and not the rule. Think Ukraine, Belarus, Yugoslavia, Romania, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and of course Russia itself. More people live in countries where the 1989-90 revolutionary wave failed t

e've gotten to the present. Along the way it was also a means of revisiting a lot of The End of History 20 years later. SHAFFER: Some theorists, like Hegel, think that history doesn't just tell us what is stable, or what works, but actually points us toward moral progress. Do you believe that? FUKUYAMA: