A Historian Is Battling All The Time

So Much Of Liberalism In Its Classical Sense Is Taken For Granted In The West Today And Even Disrespected. We Take Freedom For Granted, And Because Of This We Don't Understand How Incredibly Vulnerable It Is.

As A Teacher, My Strategy Is To Encourage Questioning. I'm The Least Authoritarian Professor You'll Ever Meet.

The Ascent Of Money Has Been Essential To The Ascent Of Man.

My Arguments For Liberal Empire Or Whatever You Want To Call It - Hegemony, Primacy, You Name It - Are Really Activated By A Sense That The Alternatives Involve More Violence, More Repression, More Hardship.

Why Did The Germans And Japanese Keep Fighting After 1943 When Every Rational Hope Of Victory Had Disappeared?