In the last generation, with public Christianity in headlong retreat, we have caught our first, distant view of a de-Christianized world , and it is not encouraging.

The word 'meaningful' when used today is nearly always meaningless.

Long periods of recession, which tend to be self-perpetuating, are usually ended by war, or by preparations for it.

The most socially subversive institution of our time is the one-parent family.

I very much wanted to be editor of the 'New Statesman!' But I never wanted to be prime minister, except maybe as a little boy.

Democracy has many enemies, and the terrorist is only one of them.

For me this is the vital litmus test: no intellectual society can flourish where a Jew feels even slightly uneasy.