Today, the danger of some sort of a nuclear catastrophe is greater than it was during the Cold War, and most people are blissfully unaware of this danger.
If you're teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are.
An effective regulatory system today would be one guided by a few basic premises that can be applied flexibly but also universally.
The House of Representatives, which was closer to the population, had much less power. The executive was more or less an administrator, not an emperor like today.
Today's Democrats are pretty much what used to be called moderate Republicans a generation ago.
I felt that we could hardly improve on the conception of the university expressed by one of the founders of the modern system, Wilhelm von Humboldt, also one of the founders of classical liberalism. That seems to me true today as well, though ideals of course have to be adapted to changing circumstances.