A Historian Is Battling All The Time

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

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.

I Refuse To Accept That Western Civilization Is Like Some Hopeless Old Version Of Microsoft Dos, Doomed To Freeze, Then Crash. I Still Cling To The Hope That The United States Is The Mac To Europe's Pc, And That If One Part Of The West Can Successfully Update And Reboot Itself, It's America.

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

Between 1980 And 2000 The Number Of Patents Registered In Israel Was 7652 Compared With 367 For All The Arab Countries Combined.