As the Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel warned years ago, to forget a holocaust is to kill twice.
It’s much more difficult to work on a broad subject than on a specific one, because even if it’s hard to find the information, if you look hard enough for something specific you will find it, and you will discover things that you wouldn’t have thought of before.
Often, what you see in the media is driven by economic forces.
Almost all people have this potential for evil, which would be unleashed only under certain dangerous social circumstances.
There isn’t much discussion of ruling class in America even in Boston, probably one of the most class-conscious cities in the country?
I don’t mind solitude. I love talking to other people, but I do need my space.
I have to finish this book tour of almost 30 cities.
There isn’t much in the way of pure communist spirit, because the whole nation seems to be engaged in capitalistic enterprises. Much of the country still operates under government control.