History is made top down, civilization bottom up.
Sep 252015
Remembering
The obscurest epoch is today.
—Stevenson
Sep 152015
To understand the past, treat it like the present; to understand the present, treat it like the past.
Aug 262015
Continuous moral progress of the species is an idea so grotesquely flattering that it cannot possibly be true.
Aug 242015
Almost everyone believes in science; it is history that no one believes in.
Aug 212015
Now we celebrate human diversity, having spent the last few millennia obliterating it.
Aug 102015
History is indicative, not dispositive.
Aug 072015
I regret less the great works that have been irretrievably lost than the mediocre ones that have been irrevocably preserved.
Jul 212015
We speak of rewriting history, as if there were an alternative.
Jul 102015
Humor used to be funny.
Apr 102015
If progress is marching, it must be drunk.