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The Conquerors of Tomorrow
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The Conquerors of Tomorrow The Conquerors of Tomorrow The tragic inheritance of the Shoah is that the victims of violence are often its next perpetrators.
Primo Levi (Wikimedia Commons)The World After Gaza: A Historyby Pankaj MishraPenguin Press, 2025, 304 pp.
Writing during the Second World War, Weil knew that war collapses the distinctions that separate victims from perpetrators in ordinary times.
Amid this ambiguity, Weil warned, the writer’s duty was to “seek a conception of equilibrium,” remaining “ready to change sides like justice, ‘that fugitive from the camp of conquerors.’” The writer must stand with the defeated today, ready to oppose them as the conquerors of tomorrow.
Mishra’s moral argument in this book works from Weil’s insight: that the victims of violence are often its next perpetrators.
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