Julie

“Putin is smart enough not to believe his own propaganda. Trump isn’t.”
― Max Boot, The Corrosion of Conservatism: Why I Left the Right

“Western journalists are also taught to report various interpretations of the facts. The adage that there are two sides to a story makes sense when those who represent each side accept the factuality of the world and interpret the same set of facts. Putin’s strategy of implausible deniability exploited this convention while destroying its basis. He positioned himself as a side of the story while mocking factuality. “I am lying to you openly and we both know it” is not a side of the story. It is a trap.”
― Timothy Snyder, The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America

“Critical thinking requires assembling data to back up one’s opinion. Otherwise students may falsely conclude that all opinions are somehow equal.”
― James W. Loewen, Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong

“A nationalist...is not at all the same thing as a patriot. A nationalist encourages us to be our worst, and then tells us that we are the best.”
― timothy snyder, On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century