A Deliberate Plan Is Not Always Necessary

For Me This Is The Vital Litmus Test: No Intellectual Society Can Flourish Where A Jew Feels Even Slightly Uneasy.

The Second World War Took Place Not So Much Because No One Won The First, But Because The Versailles Treaty Did Not Acknowledge This Truth.

It Takes Less Than A Decade For Today's Luxury To Become A Universal Necessity.

If Anti-semitism Is A Variety Of Racism, It Is A Most Peculiar Variety, With Many Unique Characteristics. In My View As A Historian, It Is So Peculiar That It Deserves To Be Placed In A Quite Different Category. I Would Call It An Intellectual Disease, A Disease Of The Mind, Extremely Infectious And Massively Destructive.

It Is One Of The Many Ironies Of This Period That, At A Time When The Intelligentsia Were Excoriating Mellon For Tax-evasion, And Contrasting The Smooth-running Soviet Planned Economy With The Breakdown In America, He Was Secretly Exploiting The Frantic Necessities Of The Soviet Leaders To Form The Basis Of One Of America's Most Splendid Public Collections