The Paradox Of Communism In Power Was

Historians Are To Nationalism What Poppy-growers In Pakistan Are To Heroin-addicts: We Supply The Essential Raw Material For The Market.

Nations Without A Past Are Contradictions In Terms. What Makes A Nation Is The Past, What Justifies One Nation Against Others Is The Past, And Historians Are The People Who Produce It.

As The Global Expansion Of Indian And Chinese Restaurants Suggests, Xenophobia Is Directed Against Foreign People, Not Foreign Cultural Imports.

The Paradox Of Communism In Power Was That It Was Conservative.

It Is A Melancholy Illusion Of Those Who Write Books And Articles That The Printed Word Survives. Alas, It Rarely Does.