As a new Justice named Jackson is getting used to her robes, and we all await October's first Monday, let us pay heed to an earlier generation's Justice Jackson. This is from the opening statement at Nuremburg, in November 1945, of the man who represented the US on the prosecution team there, Justice Robert H. Jackson (standing, in the photo). What makes this inquest significant is that these prisoners represent sinister influences that will lurk in the world long after their bodies have returned to dust. We will show them to be living symbols of racial hatreds, of terrorism and violence, and of the arrogance and cruelty of power. They are symbols of fierce nationalisms and of militarism, of intrigue and war-making which have embroiled Europe generation after generation, crushing its manhood, destroying its homes, and impoverishing its life…. Civilization can afford no compromise with the social forces which would gain renewed strength if we deal ambiguously or...