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...whom strength and power are continually kept in check by the devastation itself. Rather I mean the response of a considerable number of national politicians, pundits, and religious leaders, whose rhetoric of grandeur barely pauses in awe, sorrow, and, yes, terror before proceeding, forthwith, down a well-worn path. We, the people of this great nation, so repeatedly blessed, might do well to reflect on the price of what we call greatness, and on what is lost by discounting smallness, weakness, and vulnerability...
...They are the heirs of all the murderous ideologies of the twentieth century,” Bush said. “By sacrificing human life to serve their radical visions—by abandoning every value except the will to power—they follow in the path of fascism, and Nazism, and totalitarianism. And they will follow that path all the way, to where it ends—in history’s unmarked grave of discarded lies...
...York skyline, I wish I could join them. Instead I sit in the Langdell Law Library with several books arrayed before me, attending classes and living the ordinary life of a college student. But in this extraordinary period of history, I question my purpose and my future path...
...deep distrust of the “regular” world that invents for ourselves new myths—the kind of “X-Files” mentality that makes conspiracies ever more believable the more fantastic they become. The former, always imperfectly realized, is a difficult path to uncertain knowledge. The latter, unfortunately popular in our times, is nothing but a quick route to feelings of superiority, at least compared to the benighted masses who still believe what they...
...dust masks accosting men in suits like the natives of some new planet with an uncertain atmosphere. German radio correspondents leaning over police barricades with grapefruit-sized microphones, shouting "Are you a trader?" to anyone who walked by. Dutiful wire-service scribblers forming Oscar-night gauntlets along the path of anyone who would talk...