I don't think you should ever run from history. You should learn from it and embrace it.
American time has stretched around the world. It has become the dominant tempo of modern history, especially of the history of Europe.
The doctrine of preemption has a long and distinguished history in the history of American foreign policy.
Systematic philosophical and practical anti-intellectualism such as we are witnessing appears to be something truly novel in the history of human culture.
Clarence Darrow, America's best-known trial lawyer, was also one of American history's most skilled orators.
Barack Obama is one of the greatest politicians in American history.
One thing I've learned over these last 30 or 40 years is that people make history. There's no fait accompli to any of this.
To people who remember JFK's assassination, JFK Jr. will probably always be that boy saluting his father's coffin.
Biography is a very definite region bounded on the north by history, on the south by fiction, on the east by obituary, and on the west by tedium.
My feeling is that it's a misreading of history to say that, as the Reagan supporters do, that Reagan won the Cold War.
I arrived from Harvard, where I had studied philosophy and the history of ideas, with a bias toward literature and formal thought.
I'm reverent toward my sources. History is a team sport, and references are how you support your teammates.
Texas was such a welcoming place, and with its unbelievable history and tradition, it's extra special to be a part of that.
From the very beginning, history wasn't content simply to be nostalgic fairytales; it wanted to make you think.
My history writing was based on what I saw in strange, exotic places rather than just reading books.
No back in the history of football was ever worth two fumbles a game.
Having imagination it takes you an hour to write a paragraph that if you were unimaginative would take you only a minute.
Design can never be an ultimate explanation for anything. It can only be a proximate explanation. A plane or a car is explained by a designer but that's because the designer himself, the engineer, is explained by natural selection.
There has never been a verified scientific report that chelation therapy, a gluten-free diet, or anything else can cure autism.
It would have been difficult to design a path out of communism worse than the one that has been followed.
While I was at college studying design I decided to paint. I was also greatly inspired by the colours that I had seen on my travels in the Brazilian Rain forest.
