[VadeRetro]

Mortimer J. Adler edited the Great Books of the Western World series and their annual supplements in the late 60s. A few years back I came into my Dad's collection of same. To read it is to relive the giddy Left of 35 years ago having an ecstasy over the New World Coming. (Once we get out of Vietnam and do whatever else, anyway.) Adler had the whole syndrome. I don't think he ever noticed or repented.

[Doctor Stochastic]

He does sound like the Leftists I encountered in grad school. Of course, so do the Creationists. I've written random buzzword generators that got the physics more nearly correct.