Hannah Arendt Prize: "Comparison is the way we know the world"
Read the talk that Masha Gessen gave at the ceremony of the Hannah Arendt Prize in Bremen.
Hasnain says:
“We are not any smarter, kinder, wiser, or more moral than people who lived ninety years ago. We are just as likely to needlessly give up our political power and to remain willfully ignorant of darkness as it’s dawning. But we know something they didn’t know: we know that the Holocaust is possible.”
Posted on 2023-12-19T05:17:11+0000