A COSMOPOLITAN LAWYER: JUST SOME READINGS I HAVE ENJOYED LATELY

First, this blog replaces my previous blog, thecosmoplitanlawyerblogspot.com . Second, unlike that earlier blog, the present one is primarily meant as a record of my readings. It is not meant to suggest that others will be or should be interested in what I read. And third, in a sense, it is a public diary of one who is an alien in his own American culture. A person who feels at home just about anywhere, except in his birthplace . . . America.

Tuesday, April 24, 2018

THE YEAR 1947

Elisabeth Asbrink, 1947: Where Now Begins, translated from the Swedish by Fiona Graham (New York: Other Press, 2017):

It is easy to commit genocide, notes Raphael Lemkin, as no one wants to believe it can happen until it is too late. Out there, the world repeats, 'never again.' But Lemkin knows the history of genocide, he knows the logic it actually follows is 'next time.' It has happened, so it can happen again.

Id. at 248.).