Every Good Historian Is Almost By Definition

I Don't Write Huge Books Any More. I Used To Write 1,000 Printed Pages, But Now I Write Short Books. I Did One On Napoleon, 50,000 Words - Enjoyed Doing That. He Was A Baddie. I Did One On Churchill, Which Was A Bestseller In New York, I'm Glad To Say. 50,000 Words. He Was A Goodie.

The Most Socially Subversive Institution Of Our Time Is The One-parent Family.

In 1924 Mao Took A Chinese Friend, Newly Arrived From Europe, To See The Notorious Sign In The Shanghai Park, 'chinese And Dogs Not Allowed'.

His (lenin's)humanitarianism Was A Very Abstract Passion. It Embraced Humanity In General But He Seems To Have Had Little Love For, Or Even Interest In, Humanity In Particular. He Saw The People With Whom He Dealt, His Comrades, Not As Individuals But As Receptacles For His Ideas. On That Basis, And No Other, They Were Judged. He Judged Man Not By Their Moral Qualities But By Their Views, Or Rather The Degree To Which They Accepted His.

For Me This Is The Vital Litmus Test: No Intellectual Society Can Flourish Where A Jew Feels Even Slightly Uneasy.