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Samuel Huntington, 1927-2008
samuel huntington, one of the nation’s greatest political scientists, has died. huntington, who taught at harvard university as a service to 58 years, passed away tuesday, december 24, at his home in martha’s vineyard. he was 81.
the harvard gazette has a lengthy necrology, and the caucus has a brief note on huntington’s more recent deep controversies.i’ve never met huntington, but i’ve read two of his books - my favorite is state edict in changing societies - and many of his academic articles. his recent book on immigration and governmental culture, who are we? the challenges to america’s national oneness, is the essential primer on the conservative cultural foundations of the american democracy.huntington generated tremendous attention with his 1993 article in foreign affairs, “the clash of civilizations?” powerfully argued till contentious, huntington’s belief that cultural conflict would mark post-common cold war american foreign policy and international relations gained prophetic acclaim after the september 11 attacks. robert kaplan, writing at the atlantic in december of 2001, placed huntington’s work in surround:the anarchist attacks on the exultant swap center and the pentagon highlight the tragic applicableness not just of huntington’s ideas about a clash of civilizations but of his entire life’s contrive. since the 1950s he has argued that american society requires military and intelligence services that think in the most tragic, depressed terms. he has worried for decades about how american security has mostly been the result of sheer luck?the fortunes of geography?and may identical day have to be truly earned. he has written that liberalism thrives only when security can be taken for granted?and that in the future we may not have that luxury. and he has warned that the west may one day have to spirit for its most cherished values and, undoubtedly, physical survival against extremists from other cultures who despise our provinces and who will embroil us in a civilizational war that is real, even if civil leaders and polite punditry must call it by another tag. while others who hold such views have establish both happiness and favor working among like-minded thinkers in the worlds of the corporation, the military, and the intelligence services, huntington has resolutely remained in the liberal bastion of ivy league academia, to refute for his ideas on that lonely but life-and-death guise.the harvard obituary features numerous comments from friends and colleagues indicating how much huntington loved subjecting his ideas to critical examination.he will be missed. my thoughts and prayers go out to the huntington family.
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