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20th Century Dialectician. A neutralist at heart, Pundit Lippmann swears allegiance to no political party, describes himself as "a liberal democrat—with a lower case d." When he called last October on Khrushchev in the Kremlin, he went not as a newsman but as a 20th century dialectician. From this interview he returned to write some 5,000 intricately convoluted words which were more of a testament to Lippmann's reliance on the ultimate ascendancy of reason than an insight into the machinations of the Soviet mind.
Walter Lippmann can wait peacefully, unperturbed, for the golden rule of reason. A quarter-century ago he had this advice for graduating seniors at Columbia University: "The world will go on somehow, and more crises will follow. It will go on best, however, if among us there are men who have stood apart, who refused to be anxious or too much concerned, who were cool and inquiring, and had their eyes on a longer past and a longer future."
Obviously, Walter Lippmann is confident he is one of those men.