Hannah Arendt: Will the day come when we are force... (Plurk Paste)

to anticipate the futurehistorian is to escape the terrible reality and naked horror of a tragedy that is only too present. And it is misleading; for the future, which depends upon ourselves and our contemporaries, is unpredictable, and history begins only when the story it has to tell us has come to its end

The Fate of the Union: Kennedy and After | by Hannah Arendt

dated September 26, 1963: Volume I, Number 3. “Great writers are either husbands or lovers,” began the cover essay, by Susan Sontag, writing about Albert Camus’s notebooks.

The Ideal Husband | by Susan Sontag