Again, radical scholars will form only a part of the CFIA. but here the reasons do not include the interests of socio-economic elites but only the individual ideas and temperaments of the men who study politics and economics in contemporary America. And. not surprisingly, the proportion of radical scholars (there are many more than the recently cited figure of two) to conventional ones in the CFIA is as high as it is in any of the Harvard Departments, and it is certainly higher in the CFIA than it is in the political science departments of any other American university.

In short, the Center for International Affairs is a necessary condition for systematic and sustained radical analyses of American foreign policy here at Harvard; again, to diminish it is to diminish our radical future.

Further, what the attackers of the Center want to do to it. they could also do to the rest of the university. Any argument used to attack the CFIA or any of its programs can be used to attack a host of other university programs, including many of the Departments, and especially those of largest enrollment-Government, History, Social Relations, and Economics. This is obviously true of the test of having the right politics, which some attackers want to apply to the CFIA and beyond. But even if the attackers were to succeed in applying a political test throughout the university, their victory would be a temporary one.

Once the barrier against a political test is breached, the test will be applied by the side with money and organization, the Right: the test will not long be applied by the side that is right only in fashion and fragmentation. The Left may apply a political test for a year; but the Right will apply it for a decade. The Left needs the university: the Right needs only a confederation of trade schools.

On this issue of the political test, as in so much else. California has shown us what may be the face of the future.

The true scholar of any political persuasion will find sure footing, both in principle and in practice, only in the firm rejection of any political test and on the firm ground of academic integrity and academic liberty. Otherwise, you will surely get, to quote Blake again, "hirelings in the camp, the court, and the university, who would. if they could forever depress mental and prolong corporal war."