Conspiracy: A Biblical View, by Gary North - EntreWave

COURT HISTORIANSbook. Think of the challenge: "You, too, can become Gary Allen'sGary Allen." He did it. Fringe City.What is my point? Simple. Any graduate student or untenured scholarwho starts writing articles demonstrating how self-interested,super-rich groups have captured America's liberal, democratic, andprogressive institutions, and still control these institutions, will findhimself isolated and ultimately unemployed. If he is incorrect aboutthe details of his thesis, he will be easily dismissed as a crank, and Ido mean dismissed. If he is correct, and his case starts getting ahearing, those who set the climate of opinion need only make a fewdiscreet phone calls, or publish a devastating review or two inprestigious academic journals. Such things as existing conspiraciesthat are successfully misleading the people are simply not supposed tobe mentioned by prudent scholars. Heads, he loses; tails, he loses.Right or wrong about the conspiracy, he loses.A Crucial AlliancePeople with Ph.D.'s are not stupid people. Narrow-visioned, perhaps,but not stupid. They respond to sticks. They also respond to carrots.Carrots have been made available. A cozy relationship has grown upbetween "public-spirited" foundations — Rockefeller, Ford, Carnegie,etc. — and departments of history and social science at majorgraduate schools. That relationship is marked by the presence of"research fellowships." But we are not supposed to think of thisarrangement as a form of bribery. No, it is simply the enlightenedfunding of much-needed scholarship.Lest readers be skeptical of this accusation, be it noted that theRockefeller Foundation's Annual Report in 1946 announced that itwas going to give the Council on Foreign Relations $139,000 (1946dollars!) to produce a history of the United States' entry into WorldWar II. This assignment, which was subsequently written by Harvardhistorian William L. Langer, was designed to counter any "revisionist"histories that might argue that we were tricked into war by theRoosevelt Administration. The Council sought to avoid a repetition ofthe post-World War I episode in revisionism, when several highlysuccessful academics demonstrated that the U.S. was tricked byWilson into entering the War. 5http://freebooks.commentary.net/freebooks/docs/html/gnco/html/5.htm (8 of 15) [5/26/2000 1:48:13 PM]