But the historical post-war zeal combined with sheer hard work that have made the Franco-German couple endure so far can no longer be taken for granted.

ECONOMIST: Franco-German relations

As many new distillers are quick to point out, the presently sparse U.S. spirits-making landscape--with a relative handful of large whiskey distilleries plus a few big rectifiers making neutral spirits for white liquor--is a post-Prohibition phenomenon, a historical fluke.

FORBES: Magazine Article

This has been true over the past five years taken together (when the Morgan Stanley World Index has averaged an 18.3% annual return) and also in every calendar year except 2005, when the return was shy of its historical (post-1926) performance by a whisker.

FORBES: Another New Era

This has been true over the past five years taken together (when the Morgan Stanley (nyse: MS - news - people ) World Index has averaged an 18.3% annual return) and also in every calendar year except 2005, when the return was shy of its historical (post-1926) performance by a whisker.

FORBES: Another New Era

Launched in a post-conscript age, it can be seen as a return to the historical condition that preceded total war.

NEWYORKER: Slaughterhouse

The economist makes the argument that post-crisis GDP growth rates are about 11.9% off of historical standards, which, along with the employment-to-population ratio, suggest the current macroeconomic environment is a lot more challenging than in other recessions and will need the intervention of government to recover.

FORBES: Historically GDP Growth Is Off By 11.9% And Labor Markets Should've Already Bounced

His comment about World War IV indicates that the leadership of the Roman Catholic Church continues to reconsider the matter of war in the present-day, post-Cold War world, and that it is placing the Cold War into a historical perspective.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Vatican: World War IV has begun

It was Roth's genius to put a universal theme into a historical novel that retains all its power in our own not-so-post-imperial age.

ECONOMIST: Modern fiction