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IN 1930, the French government spent less money on higher education than it did on buying fodder for its cavalry horses. This odd fact from long ago is not wholly irrelevant to our present concerns, because it is an example--a piquant one--of just how wrong governments can get it: with rampant German revanchism already black as thunderclouds on their horizons, the French were stuffing hay down the throats of the horses of yesteryear, yet doing little to develop a technology which might meet the coming dive-bombers and panzer divisions.
Because I write these lines on September 4, 2004, near the outset of our federal election campaign, I suppose there was really no ...