Clearly, all history is contemporary history, and what Europeans, in particular, need to learn today from the twentieth century concerns the power of ideological extremes in dark times – and the peculiar nature of European democracy as it was constructed after World War II.
无疑所有历史都是当代史，而欧洲人今天特别需要从二十世纪汲取的教训则涉及黑暗年代中极端思想的力量——以及二战后建设的欧洲民主制度的特殊性。