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I am an agnostic on most matters of faith, but on the subject of maps I have always been a true believer. It is on the map, therefore it is, and I am.

Tony Horwitz

I am an agnostic on most matters of faith, but on the subject of maps I have always been a true believer. It is on the map, therefore it is, and I am.

Tags: belief, faith, maps

The first thing you notice, coming to Israel from the Arab world, is that you have left the most courteous region of the globe and entered the rudest. The difference is so profound that you're left wo...

Tony Horwitz

The first thing you notice, coming to Israel from the Arab world, is that you have left the most courteous region of the globe and entered the rudest. The difference is so profound that you're left wo...

Tags: friendliness, israel, jews, middle east, palestine, promised land

About Author
Anthony Lander Horwitz (June 9, 1958 – May 27, 2019) was an American journalist and author who won the 1995 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting.
His books include One for the Road: a Hitchhiker's Outback, Baghdad Without a Map, Confederates in the Attic, Blue Latitudes (AKA Into the Blue), A Voyage Long and Strange: Rediscovering the New World, Midnight Rising: John Brown and the Raid That Sparked the Civil War (2011), and Spying on the South: An Odyssey Across the American Divide.

Egyptians undergo an odd personality change behind the wheel of a car. In every other setting, aggression and impatience are frowned upon. The unofficial Egyptian anthem Bokra, Insha'allah, Malesh (To...

Tony Horwitz

Egyptians undergo an odd personality change behind the wheel of a car. In every other setting, aggression and impatience are frowned upon. The unofficial Egyptian anthem Bokra, Insha'allah, Malesh (To...

Tags: egypt, insha allah, middle east, taxis

Hung be the Heavens in Scarlet

Tony Horwitz

Hung be the Heavens in Scarlet

My life has been of but little worth mostly fild [sic] up with vanity.

Tony Horwitz

My life has been of but little worth mostly fild [sic] up with vanity.

Look at these buttons, one soldier said, fingering his gray wool jacket. I soaked them overnight in a saucer filled with urine. Chemicals in the urine oxidized the brass, giving it the patina of butto...

Tony Horwitz

Look at these buttons, one soldier said, fingering his gray wool jacket. I soaked them overnight in a saucer filled with urine. Chemicals in the urine oxidized the brass, giving it the patina of butto...

Van Laar wasn’t a climate change denier, nor did he talk defensively of the United States’ appetite for oil. Rather, he confessed, I don’t give much of a fuck, and nobody I know does, either, because...

Tony Horwitz

Van Laar wasn’t a climate change denier, nor did he talk defensively of the United States’ appetite for oil. Rather, he confessed, I don’t give much of a fuck, and nobody I know does, either, because...

Crumpet. Fifty years later, Michener and the Yanks show up. Then come the travel hacks, who have to justify their fancy rooms and plane fare by telling us this shithole is paradise. He stubbed out his...

Tony Horwitz

Crumpet. Fifty years later, Michener and the Yanks show up. Then come the travel hacks, who have to justify their fancy rooms and plane fare by telling us this shithole is paradise. He stubbed out his...

Seven severely depressed prisoners were listed as having died of nostalgia.

Tony Horwitz

Seven severely depressed prisoners were listed as having died of nostalgia.

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Tony Horwitz

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Lingering

Tony Horwitz

Lingering

While Americans tried to justify and glorify their Indian-killers, George Armstrong Custer in particular,

Tony Horwitz

While Americans tried to justify and glorify their Indian-killers, George Armstrong Custer in particular,

For Robert Lee Hodge, it was also a way of life. As the Marlon Brando of battlefield bloating, he was often hired for Civil War movies.

Tony Horwitz

For Robert Lee Hodge, it was also a way of life. As the Marlon Brando of battlefield bloating, he was often hired for Civil War movies.

Tags: humor, re enactment

There are people one knows and people one doesn't. One shouldn't cheapen the former by feigning intimacy with the latter.

Tony Horwitz

There are people one knows and people one doesn't. One shouldn't cheapen the former by feigning intimacy with the latter.

Tags: intimacy, pretence, shelby foote

Everywhere, it seemed, I had to explore two pasts and two presents; one white, one black, separate and unreconcilable. The past had poisoned the present and the present, in turn, now poisoned remembra...

Tony Horwitz

Everywhere, it seemed, I had to explore two pasts and two presents; one white, one black, separate and unreconcilable. The past had poisoned the present and the present, in turn, now poisoned remembra...

Seventeen evangelicals, plus five of their wives and three children, disembarked at Tahiti in 1797. Eight missionaries fled on the next boat out, to Sydney. One of the remaining missionaries married a...

Tony Horwitz

Seventeen evangelicals, plus five of their wives and three children, disembarked at Tahiti in 1797. Eight missionaries fled on the next boat out, to Sydney. One of the remaining missionaries married a...

Olmsted’s initial faith in reasoned discourse had also waned. In the course of his travels, the South’s leading men had struck him as implacable: convinced of the superiority of their caste-bound soci...

Tony Horwitz

Olmsted’s initial faith in reasoned discourse had also waned. In the course of his travels, the South’s leading men had struck him as implacable: convinced of the superiority of their caste-bound soci...

If there was an overriding message in his journals, it was that people, the world over, were alike in their essential nature—even if they ate their enemies, made love in public, worshipped idols, or,...

Tony Horwitz

If there was an overriding message in his journals, it was that people, the world over, were alike in their essential nature—even if they ate their enemies, made love in public, worshipped idols, or,...

The way I see it, King said, your great-grandfather fought and died because he believed my great-grandfather should stay a slave. I'm supposed to feel all warm inside about that?

Tony Horwitz

The way I see it, King said, your great-grandfather fought and died because he believed my great-grandfather should stay a slave. I'm supposed to feel all warm inside about that?

You asked how I'd define prejudice. That's it. Making assumptions about people you've never met.

Tony Horwitz

You asked how I'd define prejudice. That's it. Making assumptions about people you've never met.