Edward r murrow Quote by Lynne Olson

“correspondent in the Middle East, attaché William Yale. With that dispatch he was establishing a tradition of fundamentally misreading the situation in the Middle…

— Scott Anderson

“Geopolitical, cultural, and ideological crises were shaking confidence in the authority of established Western civilization so severely that sensible people believed that the end…

— Robert Tombs

After 9/11, most Americans were in no mood to talk with our enemies in the Middle East, whatever those enemies' ideology, and the Bush…

— Noah Feldman

“In 1940, we knew who we were, we knew who the enemy was, we knew the dangers and the issues," he told me when…

— Bernard Lewis

“Why should we cherish “objectivity”, as if ideas were innocent, as if they don’t serve one interest or another? Surely, we want to be…

— Howard Zinn

The tragedy of 9/11 and the bloody scrambling-up of the Middle East were painful reminders that the world had not yet reached any end-of-history…

— Chrystia Freeland

“No centrism based on the temporary historical "glory" of any nation or region should any longer be allowed to distort our universal human understanding…

— Anonymous

“In times of profound and overwhelming social change like the present, however, extreme views hold out the appeal of simplicity. By ignoring the complexity…

— Hillary Rodham Clinton

“This malignant persistence since September 11th is the biggest surprise of all. In previous decades, sneak attacks, stock-market crashes, and other great crises became…

— George Packer

America is experiencing an Islamist cultural-political offensive designed to undermine and destroy our civilization.

— Newt Gingrich

There's a certain kind of cultural energy pursued by the gatekeepers of elite discourse, who want to argue that Americans fundamentally agree with each…

— Rick Perlstein

On September 11 2001, America felt its vulnerability even to threats that gather on the other side of the Earth. We resolved then, and…

— George W. Bush