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To: jbe who wrote (1317)	11/9/1999 11:36:00 PM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3246

I have not denied that he was influential, although I do not think that that influence is persistent. How we would determine that it was to the good, or better than others, is a trickier question. I have criteria that are not inflexible, but nevertheless guide my judgment of the matter, and I am perfectly happy to defend the individual judgments. I do not think that represents an "ideological bias" in any important sense. If, say, I excluded Picasso because he was a Communist, or Heidegger because he was a Nazi, two things you know I detest, then you would have something. I dislike Ford as a man, because he was a woeful anti- semite, but I consider his main impact, namely in the development of the automobile and the organization of industry, to have been much more important, and largely beneficial. I have adjusted the list according to objections and suggestions that have been made already, and perhaps you will change my mind on something yourself.....