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There is no end of history. Instead, civilization is a constant fight to embrace what has worked for the common good through the ages—and to reject what in the past has failed abysmally.
The nature of man doesn’t change, and that’s reassuring, since we know the necessary conditions that can save him from himself.
Every problem has a resolution — but often not a good one.
Fundamentally Transformed (2016)
It is difficult to determine whether Georgians hated Sherman and his army as much as the Spartans despised Epaminondas and the Thebans. Both men had wrecked their centuries-old practice of apartheid in a matter of weeks. It is a dangerous and foolhardy thing for a slaveholding society to arouse a democracy of such men.
The Soul of Battle: From Ancient Times to the Present Day, How Three Great Liberators Vanquished Tyranny (1999)
War itself is not a mere science but a more fickle sort of thing, often subject to fate or chance, being an entirely human enterprise...
A War Like No Other - How the Athenians and Spartans Fought the Peloponnesian War (2005)
As a general rule, whatever Europe is now doing, we should do the opposite — for our very survival in an increasingly scary world.
Europe at the Edge of the Abyss (2016)
It is time to step back from the apartheid brink...
Diversity: History's Pathway to Chaos (2016)
Vladimir Putin is a thug and a killer who in the grand tradition of Russian autocracy has no intention ever of holding free elections.
Why Does the Left Suddenly Hate Russia? (2017)
If we were to take a newly arrived illegal alien, and enroll him in a typical Chicano Studies course, he would logically wish to return across the border as soon as possible.
The postmodern rationale is either that groups that have suffered past disfranchisement and discrimination should not be subject to current anti-discriminatory protocols...
America: One Nation, Indivisible (2015)
[T]he Confederacy was so entwined with the idea of preserving slavery that the flag, even today, can evoke racial polarization...
America: One Nation, Indivisible (2015)
[W]hat bothers the New York Times is not racism per se, but who is the racist and who are her targets.
The Double Standards of Postmodern Justice (2018)
[O]ur top schools are obsessed with race, class, and gender but apparently not rigorous in cross-examining the fables and pop fads of their students.
The Deflation of the Academic Brand (2018)
So far, America has beaten the odds and remained multiracial rather than multicultural, thereby becoming the most powerful nation in the world. We should remember that diversity is an ornament, but unity is our strength.
America: History's Exception (2016)