Sublime

But "anti-Fascism" or "anti-Communism" is not enough. Nor is even the defence of freedom. What has been gained may not be maintained, against invasion without and erosion within, if we are content to stand still. The peoples who are partially free as a result of what their forebears achieved in the seventeenth, eighteenth, and n

The first emperor

History is something that very few people have been doing while everyone else was ploughing fields and carrying water buckets.

Pour n’importe quel Français, par exemple, ce sont les Américains et eux seuls qui ont sauvé l’Europe du nazisme. Il me semble pourtant que le rôle des Russes, avec leurs dix millions de morts militaires, est loin d’être négligeable dans la chute d’Hitler. Quand les Américains ont décidé d’intervenir, l’Armée rouge arrivait déjà en Allemagne. Je pe

Douglas MacArthur is one of those blips in history, an idiosyncratic figure who, for reasons hard to satisfactorily explain, acquired far more power than he had any reason to. In the United States in the mid-twentieth century, there were three such men, each operating on a different scale. On the level of the city, there was Robert Moses, who someh