“Islamism is a modern, instead of an ancient, political tendency, which arose in a spirit of fraternal harmony with the fascists of Europe in the 1930s and '40s.”

from Wall Street Journal, 2010

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“He was a lover of freedom... a paradox. He did not add up... 'All governments lie,' Stone’s maxim, ought to be plastered across every journalist’s desk. But the lesson Stone can offer us today is mostly a reminder that we will have to rise to our own occasion, and not expect heroes from the past to guide our faltering steps”

from Wall Street Journal, 2006

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