“I think that we historians have a duty, the same way that doctors have a duty to speak out against the anti-vaccine crowds, or scientists have a duty to speak out against the climate change deniers.”
“Expanding the conversation beyond the ‘good’ and the ‘bad’ immigrant, or the ‘excellent’ immigrant… I think that is exactly what I see as the responsibility for using my platform.”
Each interview left me inspired, made me smile, and gave me a glimpse of the many wonderful people that surround us here in New Haven.
“The simplest theories, ones which are just starting points in economics, are used as if they are the truth.”
“In treating others, a humane libertarianism 2.0 attends to both Golden Rules. The one corrects a busybody pushing around. The other corrects an inhumane selfishness.”
“The only way I can stay alive is to make it into comedy.”
I kept asking myself as I was developing: “Why is this my work?”
“You almost can’t overstate how important YouTube is in how young people get their political information.”
