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effort. i think i must have believed that the truth could make the world a better place. now, at this stage in my life, i think there is a kind of sanctimoniousness — quiet and benign and idealistic and selfless and even kindly in its way, but sanctimoniousness even so — in this youthful delusion, grounded
, probably, in an unconscious conviction that human beings are inherently good, and that public opinion, when roused, inclines toward justice. the ground no longer feels so solid beneath my feet. not long ago i came across a passage, written in the year i was born, by martha gellhorn, one of the twentieth...
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