Life Without Oil, In Fact,

The Prevailing Ideology Of The Modern West - Which Is Political Economy - Is In The Doghouse. Having Failed To Notice Atmospheric Pollution, The Economists Then Frightened Themselves With The Sort Of Financial Crisis They Said They Had Abolished.

For All Their Current Prestige, Osama Bin Laden And The Suicide Bombers Are Still Regarded In All But The Most Desperate Districts Of Gaza Or Peshawar As Romantics With Little Chance Of More Than Symbolic Victories, However Bloody And Brutal. That Gives Both The Middle East And The West A Small And Distant Hope Of Security.

Whatever Else It Was, Adolf Hitler's Short-lived Regime Was Also A Colossal Industrial Process By Which The Wealth And Productive Power Of Much Of Europe Was Wrenched From Its Normal Purposes And Converted Into A Machine For Killing.

Financial Crises Are Like Fireworks: They Illuminate The Sky Even As They Go Pop.

When William The Conqueror Commissioned A Great Survey Of His English Realm At Gloucester In 1085, The Result Was A Work So Thorough, Fair, Dispassionate, And Wide-ranging That It Seemed To The Succeeding Generations To Have Come From Another World.