Words Can Make The Illness A Subject

We Are Not Merely Historians But Also And Always Citizens.

As Citizens Of A Free Society, We Have A Duty To Look Critically At Our World. But If We Think We Know What Is Wrong, We Must Act Upon That Knowledge.

Unlike Memory, Which Confirms And Reinforces Itself, History Contributes To The Disenchantment Of The World.

Reality Is A Powerful Solvent.

I Started Work On My First French History Book In 1969; On 'socialism In Provence' In 1974; And On The Essays In Marxism And The French Left In 1978. Conversely, My First Non-academic Publication, A Review In The 'tls', Did Not Come Until The Late 1980s, And It Was Not Until 1993 That I Published My First Piece In The 'new York Review.'