The moral spectacle of capitalism still offends, as does American capitalism's implacable insistence that the market determine value even in the political, intellectual, and artistic spheres.

The truth is that history constantly presents new problems in the guise of old.

Europeans believe in democracy - or, at least, in republican government - but they have considered the alternatives, and continue to do so, and that scandalizes Americans.

Foreign policy deals across time as well as space.

The achievement of nationhood is a product not only of time and circumstance but usually of war and suffering as well.

The center holds; passion falls away. That is what happened ideologically in Western Europe over recent years.

The problems of elites is an old one for which Americans have found no solid answer.