“Reading ‘Legitimation Crisis’ in Tehran is nothing less than a masterpiece of moral and political criticism.”

At a time when all too many of our leading thinkers are mired in the weeds of provincialism and narrow ideological wars, Postel has written a work of grace, intelligence, and towering integrity.

A brilliant inquiry into the contemporary Iranian predicament and what it means for the world.

Capitalism does live by crises and booms, just as a human being lives by inhaling and exhaling.

In my first few years of being in New York, I had a major identity crisis because I’d never stayed in one place for so long.

Coronavirus may well represent the biggest health crisis any of us experience in our lifetimes.

If I ever found a place where I belonged, that in itself would be an identity crisis to me.

We – mankind – stand at the center of an evolutionary crisis, with a new evolutionary device – our consciousness of the crisis – as our unique contribution.

With the exception of the few cases to be discussed in the next chapter, adolescence represented no period of crisis or stress, but was instead an orderly developing of a set of slowly maturing interests and activities.

Whose leadership, whose judgment, whose values do you want in the White House when that crisis lands like a thud on the Oval Office desk?

You never let a serious crisis go to waste. And what I mean by that it’s an opportunity to do things you think you could not do before.