His adherents regard Lyndon LaRouche as the greatest mind of the past 300 years, at very least. “I’m probably the best economist in the world today,” as LaRouche told The Washington Post in 1985. But a list of the areas of expertise behind that claim of eminence is even more astounding. LaRouche has determined the correct pitch for tuning musical instruments. Any other tuning bothers him, besides being incompatible with the structure of the universe.”