A couple of years I taught in graduate programs at NYU and Columbia, in the early eighties.

The 60s passed and faded and I grew older, and in 1987 bought a house in upstate New York, and it turned out that John Brown was buried down the road from my house and that he had lived there longer than anywhere else and his house was still standing.

A couple of years I taught in graduate programs at NYU and Columbia, in the early eighties.

Boys like it when you talk to them as if they were grown men—at least he always did when he was a kid—because they pretend that’s what they are anyhow, grown-up men, and they do it for their entire lives.

First of all it's usually women who run these higher primate sanctuaries, rarely men. They are white. They come from privileged backgrounds. They are educated.

The United States particularly abandoned Liberia after the end of the Cold War.

We know that people we love are both good and bad, but we expect strangers to be one or the other.