Reality is a powerful solvent..

Although the United States lost a quarter of a million men and women, civilians and soldiers, in World War II, that's considerably less than the Russ….

As citizens of a free society, we have a duty to look critically at our world. But if we think we know what is wrong, we must act upon that knowledge..

Social democracy does not represent an ideal future; it does not even represent the ideal past..

History can show you that it was one pile of bad stuff after another. It can also show you that there's been tremendous progress in knowledge, behavi….

If active or concerned citizens forfeit politics, they thereby abandon their society to its most mediocre and venal public servants.

How should we begin to make amends for raising a generation obsessed with the pursuit of material wealth and indifferent to so much else?.

Contrast 1968, when the CEO of General Motors took home, in pay and benefits, about sixty-six times the amount paid to a typical GM worker. Today the….

If we remain grotesquely unequal, we shall lose all sense of fraternity: and fraternity, for all its fatuity as a political objective, turns out to b….

We need to learn... how war brutalises and degrades winners and losers alike and what happens to us when, having heedlessly waged war for no good rea….

Love consists in leaving the loved one space to be themselves while providing the security within which that self may flourish..

History always happens to us and nothing ever stays the same..

The Second World War had a precipitating effect in that it discredited the empires, as well as bankrupting them. Not only could you no longer, if you….

The people whose necks hurt when I write about the Middle East tend to live in Brooklyn or Boca Raton: the kind of Zionist who pays another man to li….

Unlike memory, which confirms and reinforces itself, history contributes to the disenchantment of the world..

We have responsibilities for others, not just across space but across time. We have responsibilities to people who came before us. They left us a wor….

If we have learned nothing else from the 20th century, we should at least have grasped that the more perfect the answer, the more terrifying its cons….

The East European small countries have a sense of betrayal, of having been forgotten by Western leaders..

We know what things cost but have no idea what they are worth..

Israel today is bad for the Jews..

I worry that we have forgotten that the de-ideologized, de-politicized, uncontentious public space of the last 50 years as Europeans have experienced….