on the danger of projecting our own certainties back on to the confusion of the past as people experienced it
The fact — the inescapable fact — is that we know how it all came out, and they did not.
BREVITY (Memorandum by the Prime Minister) To do our work, we all have to read a mass of papers. Nearly…
The truth doesn’t care about our needs or our wants. It doesn’t care about our governments, our ideologies, our religions.…
The only ultimate disaster that can befall us, I have come to realize, is to feel ourselves at home here…