What will history say about the current challenge to democracy?
Not to flip your question, which raises some good points, but “history” will say nothing — only historians with distinctive viewpoints. We will have to see how things turn out. I’m a lot better at recounting the past than predicting the future. Q [Marek]: What lesson would a developing country get from what happened in the U.S. during the great U.S. depression? A: I’m not certain. The United States was not a developing country during the Great Depression. It did, however, have some large underdeveloped regions — the South and most of the trans-Mississippi West. The New Deal pumped a fair amount of money into those regions and no doubt helped them move toward a more advanced state of economic development. World War II, however, was probably more important so far as economic stimulus was concerned. Q [Dr. Ali Al-Hail]: Almost 11 years separated the great depression of 1928 from the World War II in 1939. How do you think that, the U.S. managed, despite the severe financial crash to help
