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he was a white man.”

“Is it not clear,” Hughes asked, “that the Government cannot be saved at the cost of its own principles?”

Stories are all we have and may the best story win, which is more or less a get-out-of-jail-free card for Trump, Putin, Surkov, Bannon, Bolsonaro, Erdoğan, Xi, Orbàn, Modi.

believe that future critics of our current political order will identify, as political fictions, what might be called the liberalism triad: freedom of speech, egalitarianism, and the fight for social justice.

“It seems obvious that many charges made by reckless or impulsive public officials cannot and should not be ignored,” Hoyt wrote, “but it seems to me that news stories and headlines can be presented in such a manner that the reading public will be able to measure the real worth or value and the true meaning of the stories.”

The second optional part is the historiography, which highlights the novelty of the work’s findings. Table 13.1. Paragraph Budgets for Short, Medium, and Long Papers Five-Paragraph Essay Ten-Page Paper Thirty-Page Paper Introduction 1 2 8 Body 1 1 6 16 Body 2 1 6 16 Body 3 1 6 16 Conclusion 1 2 2 Total Paragraphs 5 22 58 LEDES

The historian cannot always control the span of the story. Sometimes you set your time machine for a particular year, only to have it deposit you a bit earlier or later, so you have to research your way on foot to your destination.

Weaver was a professor of rhetoric.

Just as conflict is not central to a city’s life, but is reduced to a threat to that life, so tragedy as understood by Aristotle cannot come near the Homeric insight that tragic conflict is the essential human condition—the tragic hero on Aristotle’s view fails because of his own flaw, not because the human situation is sometimes irremediably