As a child I found railroad stations exciting, mysterious, and even beautiful, as indeed they often were..

You know you're an Arizona native when you have to look up "mass transit" in the dictionary..

...the century's most radical vice... the notion that human beings can be shoveled around like concrete..

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 crit….

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 peculia….

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 ….

John Major is what he is: a man from nowhere, going nowhere, heading for a well-merited obscurity as fast as his mediocre talents can carry him..

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 do….

Democracy has many enemies, and the terrorist is only one of them..

The most evil person I ever met was a toss-up between Pablo Picasso and the publisher-crook Robert Maxwell..

A Stalin functionary admitted, Innocent people were arrested: naturally - otherwise no one would be frightened. If people were arrested only for spec….

In the last generation, with public Christianity in headlong retreat, we have caught our first, distant view of a de-Christianized world , and it is ….

Nothing appeals to intellectuals more than the feeling that they represent 'the people'. Nothing, as a rule, is further from the truth.

I like that lady - Sarah Palin. She's great. I like the cut of her jib..