“... right to difference, proclaimed in the same breath. Its enthusiasts would do well to reread what Marx had said on the subject. Increasingly, the cult of human rights was narrowing the difference between French and American political life.Closer acquaintance with the US sharpened rather than lessened these anxieties. Furet remained a staunch champion of the ...”

“... in the strictest confidence: ‘What a coarse peasant ignorant woman I am! I always thought that Marx and Engels were a single philosopher. You know, like Ortega y Gasset.’ More relevant, however, were Haydée Santamaria’s revelations when she came back from her first trip to Russia and confided radiantly: ‘I met Ekaterina Furtseva in Moscow. You ...”