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Interestingly, a number of the people I know - probably you do, too - who predicted that Trump would win were precisely Russians and Ukrainians who found the political style familiar and just asked, 'Well, why couldn't it work there?' They were the ones who turned out to be right.

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I think, whatever ideological coloration we think actually applies to Trump, we can be pretty confident that he sees the American state as a mechanism to make sure that people called Trump are rich forever.

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When a terrorist attack comes, you will not necessarily know who did it. What you can know is that certain kinds of leaders will use that to suspend your rights.

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If we don't have access to facts, we can't trust each other. Without trust, there's no law. Without law, there's no democracy.

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I thought I was going to grow up and become a diplomat and negotiate nuclear arms.

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There's a basic problem with the history of the Holocaust. The people who do it don't know the necessary languages.

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Modern tyrants are terror managers. Do not allow your shock to be turned against your freedom.

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Courage does not mean not fearing or not grieving. It does mean recognizing and resisting terror management right away, from the moment of the attack, precisely when it seems most difficult to do so.

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Maybe I am naive, but I don't think talking about the Holocaust with total and complete cynicism is possible for Israeli politicians. It's inevitable that the Holocaust is part of Israeli politics.

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It's easy for us to congratulate ourselves on our own moral superiority when compared to the 1930s, but I'm not sure that we're actually right about that. In most of the West, we simply haven't been tested in the same way. And when we are tested, we often fail.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: August 18th, 1969

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