“Edge People” by the Late Tony Judt

“In this brave new century we shall miss the tolerant, the marginals: the edge people. My people.”
And a quote from another text, as excerpted by Peter Fredlake of the USHMM – thank you:
“The historian’s task is not to disrupt for the sake of it, but it is to tell what is almost always an uncomfortable story and explain why the discomfort is part of the truth we need to live well and live properly. A well-organized society is one in which we know the truth about ourselves collectively, not one in which we tell pleasant lies about ourselves.”