Love Consists In Leaving The Loved One

I Started Work On My First French History Book In 1969; On 'socialism In Provence' In 1974; And On The Essays In Marxism And The French Left In 1978. Conversely, My First Non-academic Publication, A Review In The 'tls', Did Not Come Until The Late 1980s, And It Was Not Until 1993 That I Published My First Piece In The 'new York Review.'

But I'm English. We Don't Do Uplifting.

We Are Not Merely Historians But Also And Always Citizens.

Love, It Seems To Me, Is That Condition In Which One Is Most Contentedly Oneself.

If Active Or Concerned Citizens Forfeit Politics, They Thereby Abandon Their Society To Its Most Mediocre And Venal Public Servants