Emeritus* Professor of International Affairs Lewis and Clark College Portland, Oregon  Curriculum Vitae** Contact Information For those not acquainted with academic jargon, *this means roughly "retired, but with some honor still intact" **and this means roughly "about me"

The only kinds of fights worth fighting are those you are going to lose, because somebody has to fight them and lose and lose and lose until someday, somebody who believes as you do wins. In order for somebody to win an important, major fight 100 years hence, a lot of other people have got to be willing -- for the sheer fun and joy of it -- to go right ahead and fight, knowing you're going to lose. You mustn't feel like a martyr. You've got to enjoy it. -- I.F. ("Izzy") Stone

Too much sanity is madness, and maddest is to see life as it is and not as it should be. -- Miguel De Cervantes

If the world were merely seductive, that would be easy. If it were merely challenging, that would be no problem. But I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve (or save) the world and a desire to enjoy (or savor) the world. This makes it hard to plan the day. -- E.B. White