It takes less than a decade for today's luxury to become a universal necessity.
Democracy has many enemies, and the terrorist is only one of them.
There are no inevitabilities in history
At some time in their careers, most good historians itch to write a history of the world, endeavor to discover what makes humanity the most destructive and creative of species.
As the CIA and KGB, like God and Satan, fight Miltonic battles across five continents.
The most evil person I ever met was a toss-up between Pablo Picasso and the publisher-crook Robert Maxwell.