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.
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The truth doesn’t care about our needs or our wants. It doesn’t care about our governments, our ideologies, our religions.…
Say all you have to say in the fewest possible words, or your reader will be sure to skip them;…