"The system-builders, from Hegel to Toynbee, selected facts from history to prove an a priori thesis, and presented su…"

"The gravamen of Geyl’s charge against Toynbee is not that he makes sense of the past: it is that to do so he resorts …"

""Covenants without swords are but words." Thus did Hobbes sum up, typically, one of the more elementary and depressin…"

"The collapse at Sedan, like that of the Prussians at Jena sixty-four years earlier, was the result not simply of faul…"

"Hobbes's ideas seemed at least as relevant to the middle decades of the twentieth century as they had been to those o…"

"So long as the conventional balance remains so uneven, the Western strategy of relying on the first use of nuclear we…"

"Many Christians, of whom I am one, see no moral dilemma inherent in the possession, and if necessary the use, of nucl…"

"The Foreign Secretary's Malcolm Rifkind] apologia for Nato enlargement is strong on dogmatic assertion but weak on re…"

"An elegance of style which, since his much esteemed early work The Franco-Prussian War, has always distinguished his …"

"It is clear that there are as many different languages as peoples in this island. The Scots, however, and the Welsh, …"