It Seems That American Patriotism Measures Itself

As The Global Expansion Of Indian And Chinese Restaurants Suggests, Xenophobia Is Directed Against Foreign People, Not Foreign Cultural Imports.

The Greatest Cruelties Of Our Century Have Been The Impersonal Cruelties Of Remote Decision, Of System And Routine, Especially When They Could Be Justified As Regrettable Operational Necessity.

All Professionals, Whether Physicists, Economists Or Musicians, Live By And For Peer Judgment, Even When They Are Being Paid By People Who Cannot Tell The Difference.

Nations Without A Past Are Contradictions In Terms. What Makes A Nation Is The Past, What Justifies One Nation Against Others Is The Past, And Historians Are The People Who Produce It.

It Is One Of The Ironies Of This Strange Century That The Most Lasting Results Of The October Revolution, Whose Object Was The Global Overthrow Of Capitalism, Was To Save Its Antagonist, Both In War And In Peace - That Is To Say, By Providing It With The Incentive, Fear, To Reform Itself After The Second World War, And, By Establishing The Popularity Of Economic Planning, Furnishing It With Some Of The Procedures For Its Reform