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

I would say I'm a 19th-century liberal, possibly even an 18th-century one.

Between 1980 and 2000 the number of patents registered in Israel was 7652 compared with 367 for all the Arab countries combined.

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

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

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

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.