A historian is battling all the time to remember as much as possible.

I can't imagine having a conversation about 'Celebrity Big Brother' in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

The Japanese Co-Prosperity Zone began as a racist utopia and ended as a cross between an abbatoir, a plantation and a brothel.

You really struggle to be a successful empire if you are also the world's biggest debtor.

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

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.

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