Anne Applebaum Quotes


High national emotions are permissible when a soccer team is playing precisely because they are impermissible at most other times. There aren't, simply, many other places where you can sing your national anthem until you lose your voice without causing a riot. In the context of soccer, flag-waving nationalism - even chauvinistic, anti-foreigner, flag-waving nationalism - is acceptable in Britain.


Citations

Applebaum, Anne. "Opinion." The Washington Post, 2006.

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Anne Applebaum
Anne Applebaum
  • Born: July 25, 1964
  • Nationality: American, Polish
  • Profession: Journalist Author

Anne Elizabeth Applebaum is an American journalist and historian. She has written extensively about Marxism–Leninism and the development of civil society in Central and Eastern Europe.