It is nowadays fashionable to say that one is "on the right side of history." Such a statement of one's own sanctity wins arguments by demonstrating the speaker's piety. What remains unclear is the character of the great force or being toward which the speaker is pious: what is history? What makes history a force? Is the force the individuals who live or is there a logic to history that transcends the individuals? And how can there be a right and a wrong side to it?
Source: Washington Free Beacon