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- From the days of the Founding Fathers, right to this (2008) election, how and where America fights to defend its freedom, has been the ultimate…
- From 1789, perhaps even before that, it had been the willingness of politicians to exploit either the threat or the fact of violence that had…
- To collude in the minimisation of British history on the grounds of its imagined irrelevance to our rebranded national future, or from a suspicion that…
- In its Greek origins, historia meant inquiry, and from Thucydides onwards, the past has been studied to understand its connections with the present.
- Sculptures created from found materials like ice and thorns, driftwood, and even bleached kangaroo bones all presuppose that artistic design will yield to the cycles…
- If someone asks me to go to speak at, say, Princeton, I might or might not go. But if someone asks me from Norman, Oklahoma,…
- It was the Sephardi Jews who brought fish and chips to Britain, actually, believe it or not, from the Mediterranean world. Apart from actually eating…
- Jewish history turns out not to be an either/or story - as in, either pure Judaism detached from its surroundings or else assimilation - but…
- It takes a perverse determination to drain that instinctive curiosity away and make history seem just remote, dead and disconnected from our contemporary reality. Conversely,…
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