Nazism is worse than Bolshevism, because everybody’s sober.
Jan 262018
Remembering
The obscurest epoch is today.
—Stevenson
Jan 042018
It is humble to side with science, and abject to side with history.
Dec 272017
History is best read with a grand theory in mind. It will surely be false, but facts and incidents will cling to it like lint.
Nov 082017
Civilization creates leisure, leisure promotes folly, and folly ends civilization.
Oct 252017
The revolutionary is nostalgic for the future.
Sep 272017
Not so long ago people were enslaved by other than comfort, choice, and convenience.
Sep 222017
It would have occurred to approximately no one in history to ask if what he was doing made him happy.
Sep 132017
We ought to think of the present as if it were the past; instead we think of the past as if it were the present.
Aug 302017
Theories of history owe their enduring popularity to the difficulty of perceiving accident in accomplished fact.
Jul 102017
Fiction is more confining than history, for fiction must be plausible, while history need only be real.