To Many, Heathrow In August

You Know You're An Arizona Native When You Have To Look Up "mass Transit" In The Dictionary.

A Capitalist Economy Hums When Leading Businessmen Are Bubbling With Animal Spirits And Are Prepared To Sink Their Money Into Risky Ventures.

As A Child I Found Railroad Stations Exciting, Mysterious, And Even Beautiful, As Indeed They Often Were.

The Study Of History Is A Powerful Antidote To Contemporary Arrogance. It Is Humbling To Discover How Many Of Our Glib Assumptions, Which Seem To Us Novel And Plausible, Have Been Tested Before, Not Once But Many Times And In Innumerable Guises; And Discovered To Be, At Great Human Cost, Wholly False.

Bismarck Had Cunningly Taught The Parties Not To Aim At National Appeal But To Represent Interests. They Remained Class Or Sectional Pressure-groups Under The Republic. This Was Fatal, For It Made The Party System, And With It Democratic Parliamentarianism, Seem A Divisive Rather Than A Unifying Factor. Worse: It Meant The Parties Never Produced A Leader Who Appealed Beyond The Narrow Limits Of His Own Following.