Linda Kinstler
American writer and historian, contributing writer at The New York Times Magazine and author of Come to This Court and Cry: How the Holocaust Ends (2022); she won a Whiting Award in 2023.
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Losing belief in an open future risks abdicating the power to take part in democratic politics.
Their wordsWhen we stop believing in an open future--or even that there will be a future at all--we risk abdicating the power to participate in democratic politics.
- 15 months earlier
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Most wars now end in ceasefires rather than peace deals, which means they do not end at all.
Their wordsMost wars now end with ceasefires rather than peace deals, which is to say they do not end at all.
- 12 months earlier
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Their wordsThe debate over the meaning of “genocide” is an occasion for us to reappraise the legal architecture & the history that we have inherited & to rethink how moral responsibility for the worst categories of crimes should be assigned.
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An act of oblivion does not forgive past crimes but memorializes the gravity of the wrongs.
Their wordsThe unique power of the Act of Oblivion is that it does not forgive the crimes committed on one side or the other, but rather consecrates and memorializes the profound gravity of the wrongs.
- 3 months earlier
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Evan Gershkovich was a hostage in Russia and should not have spent another second in prison.
Their wordsOur friend Evan has been held hostage in a Russian prison for exactly a year. He should not spend a second longer in his cell.