The law of unintended consequences is the only real law of history.

No civilization, no matter how mighty it may appear to itself, is indestructible.

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

So much of liberalism in its classical sense is taken for granted in the west today and even disrespected. We take freedom for granted, and because of this we don't understand how incredibly vulnerable it is.

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

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

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.