There are people who are generic. They make generic responses and they expect generic answers. They live inside a box and they think people who don’t fit into their box are weird. But I’ll tell...

It is an extremely unfortunate fact, that there are those who see the morale of respect as something that is beneficial to the other person on the receiving end, rather than something that is beneficial...

The poorest and most backward societies are always those that put women down.

For anyone inclined to caricature environmental history as ‘environmental determinism,’ the contrasting histories of the Dominican Republic and Haiti provide a useful antidote. Yes, environmental problems do constrain human societies, but the societies’ responses also...

For many societies, the journey to modernity has been painful and costly.

Evil societies always kill their consciences.

Equality has a hard time in humanity. Race, sexuality, or creed has always divided societies.

What happened? It took Gibbon six volumes to describe the decline and fall of the Roman Empire, so I shan’t embark on that. But thinking about this almost incredible episode does tell one something about...

Democratic societies are unfit for the publication of such thunderous revelations as I am in the habit of making.