Quotes from Roger Cohen

Conspiracy theory is the ultimate refuge of the powerless. If you cannot change your own life, it must be that some greater force controls the world.

Conspiracy theory is the ultimate refuge of the powerless. If you cannot change your own life, it must be that some greater force controls the world.

Conspiracy theories are the refuge of the disempowered.

inertia did not grip her. She hid her fragility as best she could. Children

Part of the process of getting out, of uprooting, is to shed origins. In Rome, as elsewhere in my family, the past was less a source of fascination than a thing to be overcome.

The liberators were not liberators. They were other occupiers. When

Joseph Brodsky wrote: "If there is any substitute for love, it's memory. To memorize, then, is to restore intimacy." The restoration of intimacy is more than an act of love; it is an attempt, by writing down a lost world before it dissolves, to bring memory closer to truth. It

In our case, as for countless other Jews, the price of integration was the loss of millennia of Jewish tradition. The Torah's instruction gave way to the moral void of modernity, a hectic dance over absence. Many

is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.

As Joseph Roth once wrote, "If there is one nation that is justified in seeing the 'national question' as essential to its survival, then surely it is the Jews who are forced to become a 'nation' by the nationalism of others." Zionism

Iraq and Afghanistan have exacted a toll on America - in lives, treasure and standing - that it will take a generation to work through.