Our culture is teleological-it presumes purposive development and a conclusion.

Our culture is teleological-it presumes purposive development and a conclusion.

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

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.

For four hundred years European civilization has dominated the world - for better or for worse. It is convenient, and flattering, for Americans to assume that this is all over; but it very rash to do so.

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.