“History resembles a guest list, in that sense, of the invited and the gate-crashers, the people, for whom we have been waiting, and those whose presence takes us unawares. Sometimes the gate-crashers prove to be the life of the party.” — Sarah Churchwell Copy Share Image
If history starts as a guest list, it has a tendency to end like the memory of a drunken party: misheard, blurred, fragmentary. — Sarah Churchwell Copy Share Image
In all likelihood, the only thing extraordinary about Tiger Woods was his golf: he had extraordinary coordination and extraordinary discipline - on the course,… — Sarah Churchwell Copy Share Image
In one sense, Obama's point couldn't be clearer: race is a distraction from class-based inequities. And if we dismiss working-class resentment as camouflaged racism,… — Sarah Churchwell Copy Share Image
Top-up fees mean that universities are increasingly under pressure to confer degrees upon students, who perceive the degree as a commodity they've purchased. Failure… — Sarah Churchwell Copy Share Image
Expression and thought are inextricably linked: crude language permits only crude thinking. — Sarah Churchwell Copy Share Image
Facts might be false if they challenge the conviction of a mind already made up. — Sarah Churchwell Copy Share Image
“The Volstead Act, prohibiting the production, sale, and transport of “intoxicating liquors,” became law on January 17, 1920. Prohibition didn’t prohibit much, and incited a great deal. By September 1922 it was already obvious that prohibition, known with varying degrees of irony as the Great Experiment, was experimenting mostly with the laws of unintended consequences. Its greatest success was in… — Sarah Churchwell Copy Share
Art cannot, perhaps, impose order on life—but it teaches us to admire even the unruliest of revelations. — Sarah Churchwell Copy Share Image
“History resembles a guest list, in that sense, of the invited and the gate-crashers, the people, for whom we have been waiting, and those… — Sarah Churchwell Copy Share Image
Music - not just the lyrics, but the music itself - expresses confused or illicit passions: rage, lust, envy, frustration, channeling these energies and… — Sarah Churchwell Copy Share Image
Racism is an effect of slavery, not the other way around. Once slavery was abolished, not only did racism not disappear, neither did the… — Sarah Churchwell Copy Share Image
Fitzgerald could sense that America was poised on the edge of a vast transformation, and wrote a novel bridging his moment and ours. The… — Sarah Churchwell Copy Share Image
History resembles a guest list in that sense of the invited and the gatecrashers: the people for whom we have been waiting, and those… — Sarah Churchwell Copy Share Image
