In 1933-34, the Belgians conducted a census in order to issue ‘ethnic’ identity cards, which labelled every Rwandan as either Hutu (85%) of Tutsi (14…

- Philip Gourevitch

What distinguishes genocide from murder, and even from acts of political murder that claim as many victims, is the intent. The crime is wanting to ma…

- Philip Gourevitch

A serious pacifist approach can't win wars against enemies whose only program is violence. That doesn't mean I think the US has fought terrorists so …

- Philip Gourevitch

Denouncing evil is a far cry from doing good.

- Philip Gourevitch

Mike Stanton is our preeminent aficionado and raconteur of Rhode Island’s flamboyantly criminal political follies, and The Prince of Providence is th…

- Philip Gourevitch

Genocide, after all, is an exercise in community building.

- Philip Gourevitch

The people are living seperately together," he said. "So there is responsibility. I cry, you cry. You cry, I cry. We all come running, and the one th…

- Philip Gourevitch

The piled-up dead of political violence are a generic staple of our information diet these days, and according to the generic report all massacres ar…

- Philip Gourevitch

Political corruption is to Rhode Islanders as smog is to people who live in Los Angeles: nobody complains of its absence, but when it rolls around ev…

- Philip Gourevitch