A biography for George Packerhasn’t been written yet.
“In the extremity of war, character is revealed.”
“The libertarian worship of individual freedom, and contempt for social convention, comes easiest to people who have never really had to grow up.”
“As America has grown less economically equal, a citizen's ability to move upward has fallen behind that of citizens in other Western democracies. We are no longer the country where anyone can become anything.”
“A religion is not just a set of texts but the living beliefs and practices of its adherents.”
“Much of the international unease with the Sochi Games has focused on the threat of terrorism, Putin's domestic repressiveness, and the Russian campaign of anti-gay propaganda.”