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9:55 AM
by Robert
Mr. Crothers, Meet Herr Weber
OpinionJournal today posts
an interesting essay from 1910 by Samuel McChord Crothers defending the value of politicians.
A few years later - immediately after Germany's defeat in World War I - Max Weber wrote his remarkable essay,
Politics as a Vocation, making the same effort in what proved to be considerably more desparate circumstances.