Ian Buruma

Isherwood did not so much find himself in Berlin as reinvent himself; Isherwood became a fiction, a work of art.

— Ian Buruma

“It is always easier, particularly in what was once a deeply religious country, to erect memorials and deliver sermons than to look…

— Ian Buruma

Anti-Americanism may indeed have grown fiercer than it was during the cold war. It is a common phenomenon that when the angels…

— Ian Buruma

The question, then, for Western companies, as much as for Western governments, is to decide whose side they are on: the Chinese…

— Ian Buruma

“I am skeptical about the idea that we can learn much from history, at least in the sense that knowledge of past…

— Ian Buruma

To isolate the revolutionary ideologues and their killers we must gain the trust of the majority of Muslims. This can only happen…

— Ian Buruma

“Perhaps Western civilization, with the Amsterdam red-light district as its fetid symbol, does have something to answer for. Maybe these streets are…

— Ian Buruma

“after all that, after the concentration camps in Germany, after we stated definitely that our former home was changed into a mass…

— Ian Buruma