I Wish I Had Been Wiser. I

I Wish I Knew As Much About Anything Today As I Knew About Everything When I Was Twenty.

If You Read The Literature Of Soviet Communism, You See A Dogma That's Chilling. On The Other Hand, If You Read The Literature Of Anti-communism, It's Every Bit As Dogmatic.

Where's The Activism? Nobody Knows. And Anyone Who Thinks They Know, Like Todd Gitlin, Has Their Head Up Their Ass. Nobody Knows. The Day Before Every Revolution That's Ever Happened, That Revolution Was Impossible. The Day Before Rosa Parks, That Was Impossible. The Day After, It Was Inevitable.

We Have Arguments [with My Father] And We Had A Lot Of Arguments In The Years When I Was At Michigan.

Jane Addams, Founder Of Hull House, Once Asked, "how Shall We Respond To The Dreams Of Youth?" It Is A Dazzling And Elegant Question, A Question That Demands An Answer--a Range Of Answers, Really, Spiraling Outward In Widening Circles.