ABSTRACT
Hans J. Morgenthau’s analysis of power has been a lifelong exercise in examining ways of applying prudential behavior to the power drive of men and nations. The Athenians once told the Medians that there is no justice except among equals. Morgenthau thought that the Van Doren case was as great a threat to the body politic as the Hiss case and the Dreyfus case because it showed in its most bald form the fact that the university faculty could be bought, sold by commerce. The state’s men unveiled themselves as imperialists given to abstract formulations without understanding the results of these formulations. The honor of becoming President of the American Political Science Association has eluded him because he moved to the left and chose to interpret his own writings on power politics by his actions rather than those of his students who saw power as its own reward.
