Class Platform: Paradise Campus

Day/Time: Monday, 9 - 10:45 AM, February 1 - April 12, *9 week class*

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Class Description: For the last couple of decades, “globalization” has become a buzzword and has been promoted at the highest levels as inevitable, economically beneficial, and a quantum advance in civilization. Some view globalization as a good agenda that has enriched the world in science and culture and lifted many people out of poverty. Others, however, believe its main effect has been the control and destabilization of governments by multinational corporations. “The New World Order,” alternately denied and promoted, is supposedly a secret world government, superseding the authority of the national governments of its members. Some familiar with history see a grand plan for a New World Order that has been covertly advancing since the nineteenth century. The most visible accomplishments of the New World Order are said to be the United Nations and the European Union. Trace the theories and impacts of globalization and The New World Order via topics including The Bolsheviks: Stalin and the Purge of the Kulaks; The Long Tail of the French Revolution; Social Democracy in Europe; The Fair Market Value of a College Degree; Post-Sixties Liberalism; The “Truthiness” of Critical Theory; The Globalists’ 16-Year Plan; and The 2020 Election: The Globalists’ Hail Mary.

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Instructor Biographies: Neal Graham retired in 2013 after 30 years as an officer and principal in a closely-held commercial real estate company in Manhattan. His first choice career, since he majored in English at Columbia University and the University of Vermont, was always to teach at the college level. Ever since the early 70s when he found it necessary to leave academia for the business world, he has wanted to get back to the classroom. At OLLI at UNLV he found students with far greater depth, on average, than he ever found teaching twenty-somethings four decades ago.