Our everyday language has become encumbered, Germanic, artificial, bureaucratic, inorganic. It may not be exaggerated to say that by now American writers face but two alternatives: write English, or write gobbledygook.
All the nationalists are wasms - except one, the most powerful of this century, indeed, of the entire democratic age, which is nationalism. - John Lukacs
All the nationalists are wasms - except one, the most powerful of this century, indeed, of the entire democratic age, which is nationalism.
- John Lukacs
Our everyday language has become encumbered, Germanic, artificial, bureaucratic, inorganic. It may not be exaggerated to say that by now American wr… - John Lukacs
Our everyday language has become encumbered, Germanic, artificial, bureaucratic, inorganic. It may not be exaggerated to say that by now American wr…
Populism is folkish, patriotism is not. One can be a patriot and a cosmopolitan. But a populist is inevitably a nationalist of sorts. Patriotism, too… - John Lukacs
Populism is folkish, patriotism is not. One can be a patriot and a cosmopolitan. But a populist is inevitably a nationalist of sorts. Patriotism, too…
There are innumerable instances suggesting that modern intellectuals do not believe themselves, that they don't really believe what they say, that th… - John Lukacs
There are innumerable instances suggesting that modern intellectuals do not believe themselves, that they don't really believe what they say, that th…
But then history does not only consist of documents. - John Lukacs
But then history does not only consist of documents.
Even one billion Chinese do not a superpower make. - John Lukacs
Even one billion Chinese do not a superpower make.
Generalizations, like brooms, ought not to stand in a corner forever; they ought to sweep as a matter of course. - John Lukacs
Generalizations, like brooms, ought not to stand in a corner forever; they ought to sweep as a matter of course.
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