"First, utopianism is probably a necessary social device for generating the superhuman efforts without which no major …"

"[H]istorians are to nationalism what poppy-growers in Pakistan are to the heroin-addicts: we supply the essential raw…"

"Liberalism was failing. If I'd been German and not a Jew, I could see I might have become a Nazi, a German nationalis…"

"Xenophobia looks like becoming the mass ideology of the 20th-century fin-de-siecle."

"Look at London. Of course it matters to all of us that London's economy flourishes. But the test of the enormous weal…"

"As the global expansion of Indian and Chinese restaurants suggests, xenophobia is directed against foreign people, no…"

"Though the web of history cannot be unravelled into separate threads without destroying it, a certain amount of subdi…"

"Words are witnesses which often speak louder than documents. Let us consider a few English words, which were invented…"

"It is not strictly accurate to call the ‘enlightenment’ a middle class ideology, though there were many enlighteners—…"

"The love affair between intellectuals and Marxism which is so characteristic of our age developed relatively late in …"