I Very Much Wanted To Be Editor

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.

Nothing Appeals To Intellectuals More Than The Feeling That They Represent 'the People'. Nothing, As A Rule, Is Further From The Truth

If I See A Door Ajar, I Push On It To See How Far It Will Open, And If It Opens Wide I Go Through It.

In The Past, The U.s. Has Shown Its Capacity To Reinvent Its Gifts For Leadership. During The 1970s, In The Aftermath Of The Nixon Abdication And The Ford And Carter Presidencies, The Whole Nation Peered Into The Abyss, Was Horrified By What It Saw And Elected Ronald Reagan As President, Which Began A National Resurgence.

If You Depart From Moral Absolutes, You Go Into A Bottomless Pit. Communism And Nazism Were Catastrophic Evils Which Both Derived From Moral Relativism. Their Differences Were Minor Compared To Their Similarities.