"My moral turn to history may begin with this extraordinary capacity of liberals since at least the Enlightenment to feel good about themselves while history goes on its merry bloody way."
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Michel-Rolph Trouillot
Michel-Rolph Trouillot (November 26, 1949 – July 5, 2012) was a Haitian academic and anthropologist. He was Professor of Anthropology and of Social Sciences at the University of Chicago.
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