“Indeed, according to one study, right-wing extremism was responsible for 76 percent of all extremist murders in the United States from 2009 to 2019. (Islamic extremists were responsible for 20 percent, and left-wing and Black nationalists 3 percent.) A comprehensive study of the years 2000 to 2018 by Rachel”
― Homegrown: Timothy McVeigh and the Rise of Right-Wing Extremism
― Homegrown: Timothy McVeigh and the Rise of Right-Wing Extremism
“old question that we are asking ourselves fifty years later: how far can we go in the rightful defense of our Western values without abandoning them along the way?”
― The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
― The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
“It is,” she wrote, “an unfortunate trait in the human character to assail or asperse others engaged in the performance of humanitarian acts.”
― Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History
― Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History
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