Aeschylus

The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.

Samuel P. Huntington

It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.

Aeschylus

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Read Scott McLemee's profile of me at InsideHigherEd.com and Maureen Corrigan's review on NPR's "Fresh Air." Listen to a radio interview with Christopher Lydon. Here's an online symposium on What Are Intellectuals Good For? at Crooked Timber. And here's another profile of me at Times Higher Education.

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