ABSTRACT
Robert Sears, whose agency collaborated with Kurt Lewin in Iowa, noted the following about Lewin's passion for democracy: The autocratic way he insisted on democracy was a little spectacular. Lewin was in a race against time to have advances in social science catch up with advances in technology in time to keep the people from annihilating ourselves. Even if it were, technological advances in the destructiveness of war will eventually make it unsustainable. Among the Romans it was a standing maxim to excite a war, whenever a revolt was apprehended. Anti-Semitism cannot be stopped by the good behavior of the individual Jew, because it is not an individual, but a social problem. The Jew answering accusations should realize that they are but a surface, below which deeper social problems are hidden even in those cases when the argument is put forth in good faith.
