The Only Certain Thing About The Future

It Seems That American Patriotism Measures Itself Against An Outcast Group. The Right Americans Are The Right Americans Because They're Not Like The Wrong Americans, Who Are Not Really Americans.

The Only Certain Thing About The Future Is That It Will Surprise Even Those Who Have Seen Furthest Into It.

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

He[napoleon] Had Destroyed Only One Thing: The Jacobin Revolution, The Dream Of Equality, Liberty And Fraternity, And Of The People Rising In Its Majesty To Shake Off Oppression. It Was A More Powerful Myth Than His, For After His Fall It Was This, And Not His Memory, Which Inspired The Revolutions Of The Nineteenth Century, Even In His Own Country.

Many Years Later, Another Marxian Rephrased This As The Choice Between Socialism And Barbarity. Which Of These Will Prevail Is A Question Which The Twenty-first Century Must Be Left To Answer.