The great age is now, and has nearly always been now.
Apr 162018
Remembering
The obscurest epoch is today.
—Stevenson
Mar 152018
The repetition is the tragedy: the first time is the farce.
Feb 272018
Professing communism never saved a kulak, and professing Nazism never saved a Jew. Only the religious fanatics are that sporting.
Feb 122018
Pas d’ennemi à gauche eventually begets pas d’ennemi à droite.
Feb 062018
At the beginning you go to the gulag for criticizing Stalin; toward the end for being first, when his name is mentioned, to stop applauding.
Feb 052018
It is the lies we tell about history that we are most apt to remember.
Feb 022018
In lieu of explanation history offers only more detail.
Jan 262018
Nazism is worse than Bolshevism, because everybody’s sober.
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.