A Historian Is Battling All The Time

Empires, Essentially, Create Order. In Their Absence, You Don't End Up With Lots Of Happy, Little Nation-states Full Of People Sitting Around Campfires Singing John Lennon's "imagine." What You End Up With Is Civil War, Anarchy.

Today, The Average Korean Works A Thousand Hours More A Year Than The Average German. A Thousand. ... That Is The End Of The Great Divergence.

Collaboration Is Risky. If It Fails, If The Occupation Is Wound Up Prematurely And The Bad Guys Come Back To Power, You Might Find Yourself In Some Serious Trouble.

Oral History Is A Recipe For Complete Misrepresentation Because Almost No One Tells The Truth, Even When They Intend To.

It’s Our Generation That Is Witnessing The End Of Western Predominance. The Average American Used To Be More Than 20 Times Richer Than The Average Chinese. Now It’s Just Five Times, And Soon It Will Be 2.5 Times.