There is nothing glorious about what our ancestors call history. It is simply a succession of mistakes, intolerances and violations.
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Harry Browne | history
Strom Thurmond | history
Carlos Fuentes | history
Conrad Black | history
T. Boone Pickens | history
Barney Frank | history
What would be the nicest thing I could say about Newt Gingrich? He may be one of the great supporters of the humanities, because you have people who don’t want to study the social sciences, because it’s not profitable, and now Newt, as the highest-paid historian in American history, may be an encouragement to people to study history.
Azar Nafisi | history
This is a good time to ask apologists for the Islamic regime, who degrades Islam? Who imposes stoning, forced marriage of underage girls and flogging for not wearing the veil? Do such practices represent Iran’s ancient history and culture, its ethnic and religious diversity? Its centuries of sensual and subversive poetry?
Phyllis Schlafly | history
Rob Sheffield | history
Sending Paris Hilton to jail for being the most loathed celeprosy lesion in the history of the species seems like a happening idea at first – forty-five days at Century Regional Detention Center is so the new thirty days at Promises Malibu! But it sets a dangerous precedent to jail celebs just because someone hates them.