When I was in junior high school our class took a field trip to New York City to visit the United Nations building. When I taught public high school in the 1960s I was instructed to weave certain basic themes in throughout the year. Our view of world history was to emphasize the growth from smaller, less centralized governments and geographic units, to larger more centralized governments culminating in (You guessed it!) the United Nations. Our entire history mindset was predicated on the emerging “New World Order” which would usher in an era of peace. That same philosophy is behind ...