It seems unavoidable that history will always link the reestablishment of the State of Israel with the tragedy of the Holocaust.
Theological reflection takes place within history, but the history within which it takes place is an ongoing, open-ended process.
Evil is such a simplistic way to describe any character, be it Iago or Caliban, or any character from history.
The election, and even the re-election, of a black man as president, in a country that is 87 percent non-black - a first in human history - has had no impact on what are called 'racial tensions.'
The musical theater is a glorious and distinctly American innovation in the history of theater.
I'm always interested in looking - historically - at how theater can animate history and how all of that can make us engage with our lives in an enriching way.
The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history. I mean in this century's history. But we all lived in this century. I didn't live in this century.
People that are really very weird can get into sensitive positions and have a tremendous impact on history.
If I didn't have a front-row seat on history, it was at least a seat on the aisle.
I'm interested in Russian language, culture, history... and I lived there, for four years, as a reporter for the Washington Post and have visited many times since.
I don't think you should ever run from history. You should learn from it and embrace it.
In the digital universe, our personal history and its sense of narrative is succeeded by our social networking profile - a snapshot of the current moment. The information itself - our social graph of friends and likes - is a product being sold to mar...
Movie SF is, by definition, dumbed down - there have only been three or four SF movies in the history of film that aspire to the complexity of literary SF.
Feminists are in an untenable position, defending something they no longer believe in, and which history will force them to recognize was destructive of most of the central pillars of civilization. I'm just the first one to point it out publicly.
Television and film are our libraries now. Our history books.
The Jew is at once alienated and indestructible; he is in exile from his own country and in exile even from himself, yet he survives the annihilating fury of history.
Do I regret taking the company public? Yes and no. Yes, because it put us under enormous pressure for a young company to go public at that point in its history, something you never could have done in the old days.
If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.
In its history, Europe has committed so many massacres and horrors that it should bow its own head in shame.
Poles must understand history but we must also overcome it if it is obstructing our contemporary goals.
If there's one country that can be trusted to understand the complexity of history, it's Israel.
