As a teacher, my strategy is to encourage questioning. I'm the least authoritarian professor you'll ever meet.

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

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

As a teacher, my strategy is to encourage questioning. I'm the least authoritarian professor you'll ever meet.

American Empire- it is an empire that lacks the drive to export its capital, its people and its culture to those backward regions which need them most urgently and which, if they are neglected, will breed the greatest threats to its security. It is an empire, in short, that dare not speak its name. It is an empire in denial.

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

I think the condition of imperial denial is a handicap because if you do not recognize that you are essentially performing the functions of an empire, you are incapable of learning from the mistakes of past empires.