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“Abroad this execution will be thrown in our faces for a long time to come.”
“He combined the meat-and-potatoes moxie of a police reporter, the instinct for precision of a scholar, the question-phrasing skill of a Socrates...and the political philosophy of an anarchist.”
"Oates believes strongly in the authority of the individual’s experience of reality."
"The tragedy strain[s] the compassion of the mere reader to the point of numbness."
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June 12, 2015
"The public airing of the Simpson trial is being used to divert political attention from some very great divisions rending this nation."
June 11, 2015
"Israelis have no desire to repeat the errors of Western Europe’s 19th-century imperial expansionism."
June 10, 2015
"The murderous mobster is the predatory lust and aggression in all of us," Ellen Willis wrote in The Nation in 2001.
June 9, 2015
"These hearings can in no sense be interpreted as weakening the hold of McCarthyism, or anti-democracy, in the United States."
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