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.

A historian is battling all the time to remember as much as possible.

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

My arguments for liberal empire or whatever you want to call it - hegemony, primacy, you name it - are really activated by a sense that the alternatives involve more violence, more repression, more hardship.

To make a living space, there first had to be a killing space.

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

In the financial sector, those whom the gods want to destroy they first teach math.