ABSTRACT
One would have thought, a few years ago, that the age of ideology was at an end. But now young people have discovered that pragmatism, too, has the characteristics and effects of an ideology. They have observed, in particular, its low resistance to a new, toughened strain of tyranny. Technological progress, they recognize, demands stability and unity over periods of time long enough to bring plans and projections to fulfillment; it thus depends upon control over natural resources, industrial facilities, future human desires, and world conditions. Thus university students have been among the first to discern and to condemn the dangers of the philosophy heretofore dominant in the intellectual life of this country. These are the students who rebel most strongly against liberal professors, liberal journals, and the general civility and temperateness of liberalism. The radical students need fresh theories, new intellectual tools, openness to breakthroughs and readiness for originality.
