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

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

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

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

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

It’s our generation that is witnessing the end of Western predominance. The average American used to be more than 20 times richer than the average Chinese. Now it’s just five times, and soon it will be 2.5 times.

In Stalin's Russia racial persecution was often disguised as class warfare. More than 1.5 million members of ethnic minorities died as a result of forced resettlement.