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.

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

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

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

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

All empires have depended on local legitimacy and local collaboration; they are not based primarily on coercion. An imperial rule that relies wholly on coercion can't endure. It's too expensive.