4 Quotes & Sayings By Ethan Mordden

Ethan Mordden is the author of four books, most recently The Emancipation of Europe: 1815 to the Present, published in 2014 by Harvard University Press. He is also an editor for The National Interest online magazine, a senior fellow at the Center for Strategic & International Studies in Washington DC, and co-author of Songs of Innocence: The Life of Allen Ginsberg. He has written for the New York Times, the London Review of Books, and other publications.

Go for the hum.
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Go for the hum. Ethan Mordden
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The problem with you middle-class gay guys is, you pass for white. You move to the metropolitan gay centres, and you're more or less closeted--"private", you'd call it--when you step outside the ghetto. You assimilate yourselves, and suddenly you've got property to protect and money invested. I ask you, what impelled the militants of the civil rights movement of the sixties? You know what impelled them? They had nothing to lose. That's how they could brave the police dogs and the fire hoses. Even torture and death. Could you have done that?. Ethan Mordden
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For most singers the first half of the career involves extending one's repertoire the second half trimming it. Ethan Mordden