I Very Much Wanted To Be Editor

If Anti-semitism Is A Variety Of Racism, It Is A Most Peculiar Variety, With Many Unique Characteristics. In My View As A Historian, It Is So Peculiar That It Deserves To Be Placed In A Quite Different Category. I Would Call It An Intellectual Disease, A Disease Of The Mind, Extremely Infectious And Massively Destructive.

The Study Of History Is A Powerful Antidote To Contemporary Arrogance. It Is Humbling To Discover How Many Of Our Glib Assumptions, Which Seem To Us Novel And Plausible, Have Been Tested Before, Not Once But Many Times And In Innumerable Guises; And Discovered To Be, At Great Human Cost, Wholly False.

In The Last Generation, With Public Christianity In Headlong Retreat, We Have Caught Our First, Distant View Of A De-christianized World , And It Is Not Encouraging.

Long Periods Of Recession, Which Tend To Be Self-perpetuating, Are Usually Ended By War, Or By Preparations For It.

Scanning The Newspapers And Absorbing With A Mixture Of Incredulity And Indignation The Enormities They Report, I Conclude That What England Lacks Today Is, Quite Simply, Sense.