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Next to courage, willpower is the most important thing in politics.
Like many physical diseases, anti-Semitism is highly infectious, and can become endemic in certain localities and societies. Though a disease of the... →
If anti-Semitism is a variety of racism, it is a most peculiar variety, with many unique characteristics. In my view as a historian, it is so... →
Global warming, like Marxism, is a political theory of actions, demanding compliance with its rules.
The planet Earth, though not threatened with destruction by man-made global warming, is by no means indestructible. There are many unpredictable... →
As a child I found railroad stations exciting, mysterious, and even beautiful, as indeed they often were.
To many, Heathrow in August is a paradigm of Hell.
Germany's Angela Merkel exudes an atmosphere of elderly exhaustion and pooped-out pessimism. Britain's David Cameron, though by nature... →
Is there any possibility of giving international air travel, which we all need and use and hate, a touch of glamour, or even of reliable, soulless... →
One of the categories of people I don't like much are intellectuals. People say, 'Oh, you're an intellectual,' and I say... →
The image of the scientist who puts the pursuit of truth before anything else has been shattered and replaced by a man on the make or a... →
Indeed it is the protean ability of Western civilization to be self-critical and self-correcting - not only in producing wealth but over the whole... →
Euphemism is a human device to conceal the horrors of reality.
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