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Book but they are responsible for its inception. My grandparents on my fathers side came from poland. They were polish jews. They left at the beginning of world war ii. On my mothers side, my mothers father was an american diplomat sent to hungary who was kicked out. He was accused of being a spy which he wasnt. In some ways, these stories, the experience of being ejected from poland or hungary, formed a backdrop in our familys story about life under authoritarianism. I think it always i was always interested in what it felt like to live in a country where there were fundamental constraints on...

They left at the beginning of world war ii. My motherss side, father was an american diplomat sent to hungary who was kicked out. He was accused of being a spy which he wasnt. In some ways, these stories, the experience of being ejected from poland or hungary, formed a backdrop in our familys story about life under authoritarianism. I wast always always interested in what it felt like to live in a country where there were fundamental constraints on how you live and what you could care about and what your values were. When there was a moment in my life where i could go to a place to dig into th...

[speaking chinese] what i mean is that this book is about ambition. Literally in chinese, it is about the wild heart. That is the term people use in chinese to describe ambition. Wild heart, for a long time in chinese was an unimaginable idea. If you are accused of being ambitious, you are accused of being wild hearted. That was a death sentence. What it meant was that you put the group before anything else. Im sorry, you put yourself before the group. For chinese history, that was unimaginable under the confucian period or the socialist period. When i got there, things were beginning to chang...

The fifth annual National News Literacy Week (Jan. 22–26) will highlight the vital role of local news in keeping communities informed and connected

In 1988, Walt Apperson, then publisher of the Murray Ledger & Times, called me to set up a meeting. He had read a piece I’d written for the New York Times about my recent move from NJ to Murray, and