The biggest danger to the European Union comes not from those who advocate change, but from those who denounce new thinking as heresy. In its long history Europe has experience of heretics who turned out to have a point.

A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind.

History is little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.

Robots have a rich and storied history in movies.

Nixon in 1968, unlike Obama 2008, was elected as a minority president with only 43 percent of the vote. Yet, in 1972, he won what, in some measures, was the most lopsided election in American history with 61 percent.