History Works Itself Out By An Inevitable

A Truly Common Culture Is Not One In Which We All Think Alike, Or In Which We All Believe That Fairness Is Next To Godliness, But One In Which Everyone Is Allowed To Be In On The Project Of Cooperatively Shaping A Common Way Of Life.

Today, Nostalgia Is Almost As Unacceptable As Racism.

Historical Determinism Is A Recipe For Political Quietism.

Reading Is Not A Straightforward Linear Movement, A Merely Cumulative Affair: Our Initial Speculations Generate A Frame Of Reference Within Which To Interpret What Comes Next, But What Comes Next May Retrospectively Transform Our Original Understanding, Highlighting Some Features Of It And Backgrounding Others.

Successful Revolutions Are Those Which End Up By Erasing All Traces Of Themselves.