One of the reasons that any person writes anything is to try and keep his own sanity together.

- Sean Wilentz

I think that's what Dylan's trying to do: to create a space artistically where something else can take shape, can take life - where there's hope.

- Sean Wilentz

Maya Jasanoff's Liberty's Exiles places the loyalist experience and the aftermath of the American Revolution in an entirely new light. Alongside the …

- Sean Wilentz

Politics is about who wins and loses. The rest is of marginal interest.

- Sean Wilentz

Reading to kids is to ordinary reading what jazz is to a string quartet.

- Sean Wilentz

To say that poverty explains terror is to slander those caught in poverty who choose to lead worthy lives. [Terrorists] are not the oppressed, but th…

- Sean Wilentz