The War on the West: How to Prevail in the Age of Unreason

huge attention has been paid in recent years to the trade in slaves that went west, very little has been expended on the trade that went east.

if we spent even a portion of the time that we focus on past slavery focused, instead, on present-day slavery. And what we might be able to do about this modern horror.

If it is agreed that everybody did bad things in the past, then it is possible to move on and even to move past it. Who wants to litigate or relitigate a past in which nobody’s ancestors were saints?

while historical attention is now almost exclusively interested in one direction of slavery, throughout the last millennium (as throughout history) the horror went in every direction.

In the place of color blindness, we have been pushed into racial ultra-awareness.

how strange it is to see only one group of people consistently in the dock for a crime that everybody took part in.