[…] a foreign traveler in 1864 […] asked some random American to explain the war. "It's the conquest of America by Massachusetts," was the answer. Massachusetts, of course, later went on to conquer first Europe and then the entire planet, the views of whose elites as of 2007 bear a surprisingly coincidental resemblance to those held at Harvard in 1945.

"Why conservatives never quite catch the boat", Unqualified Reservations (June 21, 2007) Paraphrasing Charles Royster. Paraphrasing Auguste Laugel.