The Passion For Tidiness Is The Historian's

Liberalism Regards All Absolutes With Profound Skepticism, Including Both Moral Imperatives And Final Solutions... Insistence Upon Any Particular Solution Is The Mark Of An Ideologue.

In View Of The Tide Of Religiosity Engulfing A Once Secular Republic It Is Refreshing To Be Reminded By Freethinkers That Free Thought And Skepticism Are Robustly In The American Tradition. After All The Founding Fathers Began By Omitting God From The American Constitution.

There Is Far Less To The Presidency, In Terms Of Essential Activity, Than Meets The Eye.

Few Secret Undertakings Ever Did Any Nation Any Good.

The Passion For Tidiness Is The Historian's Occupational Disease.