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

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

But Americans are different from everyone else in the world - except the Canadians, and Americans are more different from the Canadians than they often think.

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.

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.