There are certain moments in the history of a nation when the choices made define the decades to come. less than 1 minute read
Obama has seen to the passage of the most radical legislation in recent American history and so-called ‘progressives’ should be thanking him for it - even as many of the rest of us rear in horror from its implications. less than 1 minute read
Nixon in 1968, unlike Obama 2008, was elected as a minority president with only 43 percent of the vote. Yet, in 1972, he won what, in some measures, was the most lopsided election in American history with 61 percent. less than 1 minute read
History is little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind. less than 1 minute read
A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind. less than 1 minute read
The biggest danger to the European Union comes not from those who advocate change, but from those who denounce new thinking as heresy. In its long history Europe has experience of heretics who turned out to have a point. less than 1 minute read
From Caesar’s legions to the Napoleonic wars. From the Reformation, the Enlightenment and the industrial revolution to the defeat of nazism. We have helped to write European history, and Europe has helped write ours. less than 1 minute read
