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The people who must never have power are the humorless. To impossible certainties of rectitude they ally tedium and uniformity.

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So this is where all the vapid talk about the 'soul' of the universe is actually headed. Once the hard-won principles of reason and science have been ...more

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I still make sure to go, at least once every year, to a country where things cannot be taken for granted, and where there is either too much law and o...more

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And I'll close by saying this. Because anti-Semitism is the godfather of racism and the gateway to tyranny and fascism and war, it is to be regarded n...more

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His importance to the century just past, and therefore his status as a figure in history as well as in literature, derives from the extraordinary sali...more

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Wars, wars, wars': reading up on the region I came across one moment when quintessential Englishness had in fact intersected with this darkling plain....more

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The essence of tyranny is not iron law. It is capricious law.

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Remaining for a moment with the question of legality and illegality: United Nations Security Council Resolution 1368, unanimously passed, explicitly r...more

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The burden therefore rests with the American legal community and with the American human-rights lobbies and non-governmental organizations. They can e...more