For Me This Is The Vital Litmus

If We Want Foxes, To Observe And Delight In, We Must Have Hunting.

Euphemism Is A Human Device To Conceal The Horrors Of Reality.

Every Good Historian Is Almost By Definition A Revisionist. He Looks At The Accepted View Of A Particular Historic Episode Or Period With A Very Critical Eye.

If Anti-semitism Is A Variety Of Racism, It Is A Most Peculiar Variety, With Many Unique Characteristics. In My View As A Historian, It Is So Peculiar That It Deserves To Be Placed In A Quite Different Category. I Would Call It An Intellectual Disease, A Disease Of The Mind, Extremely Infectious And Massively Destructive.

It Is One Of The Many Ironies Of This Period That, At A Time When The Intelligentsia Were Excoriating Mellon For Tax-evasion, And Contrasting The Smooth-running Soviet Planned Economy With The Breakdown In America, He Was Secretly Exploiting The Frantic Necessities Of The Soviet Leaders To Form The Basis Of One Of America's Most Splendid Public Collections