The responsibility of the writer as a moral agent is to try to bring the truth about matters of human significance to an audience that can do something about them.

The British had an even stronger [then America] business interest in Nazi Germany. And Benito Mussolini was greatly admired.

American society is now remarkably atomized. Political organizations have collapsed. In fact, it seems like even bowling leagues are collapsing. The left has a lot to answer for here. There's been a drift toward very fragmenting tendencies among left groups, toward this sort of identity politics.

In 1962, war was avoided by Khrushchev's willingness to accept Kennedy's hegemonic demands.

I have never heard of anyone who was a "model person" in all aspects of his or her life, intellectual life or other aspects; nor do I see why anyone should care. We are not engaged in idol worship, after all.

Just media alone is not enough. You have to have organization.

Small changes can magnifiy. The possibility of interpersonal communication has increased substantially with contemporary technology. But as compared with the major changes, which were long ago, these are not huge.