Repressed memory is the ammunition of history, returning when one least expects it to puncture the complacency of the present.

Every Wednesday since January 1992, an indefatigable group of halmonis (Korean for "grandmothers") in their 70s and 80s have led a rally in front of the Japanese Embassy in Seoul.

Seventy-eight-year-old Andrew Marshall runs the Office of Net Assessment from a small office on the third floor of the Pentagon.

In the summer of 1941, Adolf Hitler's apparently invincible Wehrmacht was grinding hundreds of miles into the Soviet Union, spreading mayhem all the way.

Americans aren't much for history these days. History is for Europeans--for Germans, with their thickets of theory, and the French, who are forever going on about their revolution.

"Austria had many geniuses, and that was probably its undoing."
    --Robert Musil

Between 1945 and 1947 the United States underwent perhaps the most breathtaking ideological transformation in its history.

People concerned about the US-led NATO war against Yugoslavia find much to reflect upon in the Vietnam experience.

Better late than never?