“Nationalist, anti-European, anti-immigrant, anti-Muslim public political figures, seem a worrying picture of a possible European f...”

“Why is it that here in the United States we have such difficulty even imagining a different sort of society from the one whose dys...”

“What has gone catastrophically wrong in England and the States is that for 30 years we've lost the ability to talk about the state...”

“As citizens of a free society, we have a duty to look critically at our world. But if we think we know what is wrong, we must act...”

“I see myself as, first and above all, a teacher of history; next, a writer of European history; next, a commentator on European af...”

“We have responsibilities for others, not just across space but across time. We have responsibilities to people who came before us....”

“In all my life and in the future, I will always be a faithful and loyal servant to all of my compatriots.”

“It's like real life: We don't get a preview of what's coming up, thank God, and we don't build our own character from what we're g...”

“So at some point you realize that your life is not just going to start one day in the future, that you're living it.”

“When thinking about the future, it is fashionable to be pessimistic. Yet the evidence unequivocally belies such pessimism. Over th...”

“Life is going to be complex, and the only way we're able navigate our way through it at all is by living as best we can and absorb...”

“I can look at the future with anticipation. And it's comforting to know that someday, as Christians, we'll be able to look back an...”