But I'm English. We Don't Do Uplifting.

Undergraduates Today Can Select From A Swathe Of Identity Studies.... The Shortcoming Of All These Para-academic Programs Is Not That They Concentrate On A Given Ethnic Or Geographical Minority; It Is That They Encourage Members Of That Minority To Study Themselves - Thereby Simultaneously Negating The Goals Of A Liberal Education And Reinforcing The Sectarian And Ghetto Mentalities They Purport To Undermine.

If Active Or Concerned Citizens Forfeit Politics, They Thereby Abandon Their Society To Its Most Mediocre And Venal Public Servants

We Are Not Merely Historians But Also And Always Citizens.

We Have Responsibilities For Others, Not Just Across Space But Across Time. We Have Responsibilities To People Who Came Before Us. They Left Us A World Of Institutions, Ideas Or Possibilities For Which We, In Turn, Owe Them Something. One Of The Things We Owe Them Is Not To Squander Them.

Unlike Memory, Which Confirms And Reinforces Itself, History Contributes To The Disenchantment Of The World.