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

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

The British press has an insatiable appetite for making public things that should be private. It's a prurience that I've never understood.

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

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

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

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