“The Cold War did end in the victory of one side and in the defeat of t...” — Zbigniew Brzezinski Quote

The Cold War did end in the victory of one side and in the defeat of the other. This reality cannot be denied, despite the understandable sensitivities that such a conclusion provokes among the tenderhearted in the West and some of the former leaders of the defeated side.

The public has been told repeatedly that terrorism is 'evil,' which it undoubtedly is, and that 'evildoers' are responsible for it, which doubtless they are. But beyond these justifiable condemnations, there is a historical void.

Pessimism about America's future tends to underestimate its capacity for self-renewal.

World War II and the ensuing Cold War compelled the United States to develop a sustained commitment to Western Europe and the Far East.

Philosophy: Impersonal anxiety; refuge among anemic ideas.

Poe was a student of many things, and among those things he read and referred to in his work was the Bible.

The fate of the Celt in the British Empire bids fair to resemble that of the Greeks among the Romans.

You know how much I am inclined to explain all disputes among philosophical schools as merely verbal disputes or at least to derive them originally from verbal disputes.

But then I realized, I think maybe we're too preoccupied with the past and too preoccupied with the idea that nationalism and sense of identity belongs to the soil, to the land, and isn't somehow within ourselves and among each other.