Those who are convinced they have a monopoly on The Truth always feel that they are only saving the world when they slaughter the heretics.

Science and technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response.

Science and Technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response. Expelled from individual consciousness by the rush of change, history finds its revenge by stamping the collective unconscious with habits, values, expectations, dreams. The dialectic between past and future will continue to form our lives.

Total separation of church and state was considered the best safeguard for the health of each. As [Andrew] Jackson explained, in refusing to name a fast day, he feared to 'disturb the security which religion now enjoys in this country, in its complete separation from the political concerns of the General Government.'

History, in the end, becomes a form of irony.

In Defense of the World Order . . . U.S. soldiers would have to kill and die.

History is full of surprises.