History is apocryphal.
Oct 022014
Remembering
The obscurest epoch is today.
—Stevenson
Oct 012014
Chivalry is moribund, but every war kindles a recrudescence.
Sep 302014
Each photograph in the album is a tiny buttress of age with youth, of a ruined present with a glorious past.
Sep 242014
Many historical figures supposed to be influential are chiefly so among the cataloguers of influence.
Sep 232014
People throughout history have died mostly of being in the way.
Sep 222014
The historical imagination is simply the recognition that then was someone’s now.
Sep 112014
Two hundred years ago to call a man a poet implied that he was a god; today it implies that he is a fool.
Aug 282014
The archetype of the modern intellectual is not the dry specialist, as the nineteenth century foresaw, but the interdisciplinary huckster.
Aug 212014
Revolution gets awfully good press, considering its track record.
Jun 052014
More people fear the past than the future.