The Armenian genocide showed what could happen when empires were beaten into nations.

Oral history is a recipe for complete misrepresentation because almost no one tells the truth, even when they intend to.

The Armenian genocide showed what could happen when empires were beaten into nations.

When I first came to Oxford, I struggled to feel comfortable in an Anglican, public school-dominated institution.

Why did the Germans and Japanese keep fighting after 1943 when every rational hope of victory had disappeared?

I refuse to accept that Western civilization is like some hopeless old version of Microsoft DOS, doomed to freeze, then crash. I still cling to the hope that the United States is the Mac to Europe's PC, and that if one part of the West can successfully update and reboot itself, it's America.

My arguments for liberal empire or whatever you want to call it - hegemony, primacy, you name it - are really activated by a sense that the alternatives involve more violence, more repression, more hardship.