When bond prices fall, interest rates soar, with painful consequences for all borrowers.

To make a living space, there first had to be a killing space.

The British press has an insatiable appetite for making public things that should be private. It's a prurience that I've never understood.

I think that it is important to be gregarious, and that friendships are not just a leisure pursuit, that they are an integral part of what it is to be human, and one does better work if one has a circle of friends that is active.

The rise of the West is, quite simply, the pre-eminent historical phenomenon of the second half of the second millennium after Christ.

The West may collapse very suddenly. Complex civilizations do that, because they operate, most of the time, on the edge of chaos.

If young men have jobs - or the prospects of jobs - they are less likely to take up arms, they are less likely to join the resistance.