Global warming, like Marxism, is a political theory of actions, demanding compliance with its rules.

The Second World War took place not so much because no one won the First, but because the Versailles Treaty did not acknowledge this truth.

Every good historian is almost by definition a revisionist. He looks at the accepted view of a particular historic episode or period with a very critical eye.

Courage is the essential element in any great public man or woman.

If the decline of Christianity created the modern political zealot - and his crimes - so the evaporation of religious faith among the educated left a vacuum in the minds of Western intellectuals easily filled by secular superstition. There is no other explanation for the credulity with which scientists, accustomed to evaluating evidence, and writers, whose whole function was to study and criticize society, accepted the crudest Stalinist propaganda at its face value. They needed to believe; they wanted to be duped.

As the CIA and KGB, like God and Satan, fight Miltonic battles across five continents.

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