To be on the wrong side of history is sometimes fatal; to be in its way always is.
May 082018
Remembering
The obscurest epoch is today.
—Stevenson
Apr 242018
The makers of history know too little of how it will turn out, and the writers know too much.
Apr 232018
History does not swim left; it is pushed, by the many little helpers on its right side.
Apr 162018
The great age is now, and has nearly always been now.
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.