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

Foreign policy deals across time as well as space.

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

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

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.

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

America's problem is how to free itself from the grip of it's exhausted ideas.