Printed in the United States of America. Introduction Uneasy that this Instructor's Manual may be taken as an infringement upon the liberty to teach freely from Politics for Better or Worse, I have tried to write it more as a commentary on and a biography of the text, and as a way of saying a few things I couldn't fit in there. I believe that the preface and introduction explain honestly and accurately the motives behind the text and what should be expected from it, though they don't cover the pecuniary motive. I should hope so. I have seen enough of students who prefer utter nonsense to serious textbooks simply because the nonsense communicates.
Every intellectual work is personal.
Carl Mannheim and a school of sociology of knowledge have demonstrated this. The tendency of science and scholarship to conceal itself from its consumers has a long history, extending probably beyond the priesthoods of antiquity. We may want to get the students to let it all hang out, a current expression for the get the students to let it all hang out, a current expression for the ancient Socratic doctrine of self-awareness, but we have for too long thought we could do so without exposing ourselves. But we should generally be pleased with the question. The demand for relevance is not irrelevant.