Quotation of the Day
30th March 2025
“Just as not every dictatorship is totalitarian and not every thuggish ruler is Hitler, Stalin, or Mao, not every bloody war is genocidal. Political activists routinely treat hyperbole as fact in order to gain followers. Every crisis must be described as “existential.” But scholars should refrain from such rhetoric. Like Tolstoy, they should place the highest value on the truth.”