I think that whenever a nation feels itself to be at is zenith, it starts to feel a creeping sense of anxiety.

If one tries to think about history, it seems to me - it's like looking at a range of mountains. And the first time you see them, they look one way. But then time changes, the pattern of light shifts. Maybe you've moved slightly, your perspective has changed. The mountains are the same, but they look very different.

History is what we bring to it, not just the events themselves, but how we interpret those events.

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