Quote for Today: Elie Wiesel
Sometimes we must interfere. When human lives are endangered, when human dignity is in jeopardy, national borders and sensitivities become irrelevant. Whenever men or women are persecuted because of …
Quote for Today: Emilie Autumn
I feel as though, if I were to extend my hand just a little toward the pool where the ideas ferment, I could grab at the idea and pull it …
Quote for Today: Robert Green Ingersoll
Until every soul is freely permitted to investigate every book, and creed, and dogma for itself, the world cannot be free. Mankind will be enslaved until there is mental grandeur …
Old Beginnings: Dara Horn’s The World to Come
Languages fade from tongue and memory. Stories are lost. Do we have a right or a duty to tell them? Dara Horn’s The World to Come is a sprawling family saga that encompasses the …
Quote for Today: Doris Lessing
A public library is the most democratic thing in the world. What can be found there has undone dictators and tyrants: demagogues can persecute writers and tell them what to …