When I First Came To Oxford, I

So Much Of Liberalism In Its Classical Sense Is Taken For Granted In The West Today And Even Disrespected. We Take Freedom For Granted, And Because Of This We Don't Understand How Incredibly Vulnerable It Is.

It’s Our Generation That Is Witnessing The End Of Western Predominance. The Average American Used To Be More Than 20 Times Richer Than The Average Chinese. Now It’s Just Five Times, And Soon It Will Be 2.5 Times.

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.

When I First Came To Oxford, I Struggled To Feel Comfortable In An Anglican, Public School-dominated Institution.

Oral History Is A Recipe For Complete Misrepresentation Because Almost No One Tells The Truth, Even When They Intend To.