"You Americans have the watches, but we[, the Taliban,] have the time."-A captured Taliban fighters quoted in Ryan C. Crocker, "Why Biden’s Lack of Strategic Patience Led to Disaster." The New York Times. August 21, 2021.
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A History of Race and Racism in America
"I’ve selected the most influential books on race and the black experience published in the United States for each decade of the nation’s existence — a history of race through ideas, arranged chronologically on the shelf. (In many cases, I’ve added a complementary work, noted with an asterisk.) Each of these books was either published … Continue reading A History of Race and Racism in America
An American National Weakness
"...As a nation, we are relatively intolerant of long waits, and we’re not sufficiently focused on the long-term solutions of exercise and good diet. We love the quick fix, we want it on our terms, and we hate being told no... I do think these tendencies reflect a kind of American national weakness, and that … Continue reading An American National Weakness
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