For all the casual slurs about 'cultural imperialism', British imperialists were more interested in other cultures than anybody before or since, and, if they hadn't dug it up and taken care of it, we'd know hardly anything about the ancient world. What's important about a nation's past is not what it keeps walled up in the museum but what it keeps outside, living and breathing as every citizen's inheritance.

Jesse Jackson's living depends on the maintenance of an African-American victim culture

When is black America going to forgive white America for slavery?

When a man doesn't know the meaning of the word 'fear', that might just be a deficiency in his education.

Contemporary politics is all about phony energy, about running around slamming doors for the sake of it-or, more to the point, opening them and tossing through a huge sack of taxpayer dollars.

It's not that I place less value on Palestinian lives, but that Chairman Arafat and his chums in Hamas do.

When Cromwell instructed his portraitist to paint him 'warts and all', he meant both halves of that equation. To teach the warts alone is morbid and unhealthy.