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01 / belief
“I remember once being asked when I was a graduate student at Harvard — Tony Lake was then national security adviser, and his office called and said — I’d written something in the New York Times, I think — “Mr.”
02 / belief
“If you think about the rise of al-Qaida, the rise of Islamic fundamentalism, you think about the return of a certain kind of Chinese nationalism in China — I think that piece of it — you look at the rise of Hindu nationalism in India — he really understood that people were going to fall back on these older, descriptive identities in a way that they had not during the Cold War.”
03 / belief
“I think there are now maybe a handful of members of ISIS who’ve been found to have been Indian Muslims.”
04 / belief
“Brad Berenson was another person who was very good, who I think served in the Bush White House in the Office of Legal Counsel and then became general counsel to GE.”
05 / prediction
“What’s interesting is that, partly because of 9/11, which I think in some ways was a great wake-up call, what you have seen is a much greater effort by elites to modernize the societies, not simply to buy a modernity by buying Western goods, but to find ways to actually modernize the society.”
06 / evaluation
“I would say that’s, to me, the central message of Christianity that I take, certainly from the Sermon on the Mount, and it’s imbued through the Book of Common Prayer: to be nice to the people who have been less fortunate than you.”
07 / evaluation
“Mumbai is definitely the most cosmopolitan part, and it still has a lot of cosmopolitanism because India still has a lot of Muslims in India, even though the Muslim majority areas ended up being Pakistan, Bangladesh. But there’s a very substantial minority — around 10 percent, which in Indian terms — maybe 12 percent — it’s about 180 million Muslims, which makes it, I think, the third- or fourth-largest Muslim country in the world.”
08 / prediction
“When Indira Gandhi, as prime minister, stormed it because there were a group of separatists who had holed up there — that really is what triggered enormous, enormous pain and anger in the Sikh community, which eventually led to her assassination.”
09 / evaluation
“You think of a place like Vienna, which, in its most dazzling moment, was dazzling precisely because it was this polyglot population of people coming from all over the Habsburg Empire.”
10 / evaluation
“There was a common cause and there was a symbiosis because these were your friends, these were your allies, these were the only people supporting you, the cause that mattered the most to you in your life.”
11 / preference
“I don’t know if I decided this consciously, but I think one of the reasons I’m a journalist and not an active participant is that I saw what it does to you as a person, and I didn’t love that.”
12 / prediction
“I think the reason these books are coming out — and certainly, mine, as you know, is centrally occupied with the problem that there’s a great danger that we are going to lose this enormous, probably the most important thing that’s happened in the last 500, 600 years in human history, this movement that has allowed for the creation of modern liberal democratic societies with somewhat market economies.”
13 / preference
“I need to go into something that has deadlines, that has structure, that has more feedback because, as you know well, Tyler, there’s a very lonely aspect to being an academic.”