I don't remember when exactly I read my first comic book, but I do remember exactly how liberated and subversive I felt as a result.

I don't remember when exactly I read my first comic book, but I do remember exactly how liberated and subversive I felt as a result.

Speaking as a New Yorker, I found [September 11] a shocking and terrifying event, particularly the scale of it.

And in this relentlessly unfolding series of interactions, the U.S. has played a very distinctive role, which most Americans have been either shielded from or simply unaware of.

I emphasize in it [my Orientalism] accortdingly that neither the term Orient nor the concept of the West has any ontological stability; each is made up of human effort, partly affirmation, partly identification of the Other.

And what terrifies me is that we're entering a phase where if you start to speak about this as something that can be understood historically - without any sympathy - you are going to be thought of as unpatriotic, and you are going to be forbidden. It's very dangerous. It is precisely incumbent on every citizen to quite understand the world we're living in and the history we are a part of and we are forming as a superpower.

Since when does a militarily occupied people have the responsibility for a peace movement?