Odi ergo sum: I hate, therefore I am. Some years ago I wrote a book about hatred, about its psychological morphology and, one might say, its historical anthropology. I arrived at a five-part taxonomy of hatred in an effort to bring under a single unitary framework what we have witnessed of its manifestations in recent times. As you might imagine, it was an exhausting experience, exacerbated by the fact, I suppose, that I finished the book here in northeastern Europe—in Kaunas, Lithuania (earlier sections were drafted in both the Netherlands and in the United States)—with the 20th-century’s bloody history much …read more
Source: The American Interest
