Quote of the day
I would sum up my fear about the future in one word: boring. And that's my one fear: that everything has happened; nothing exciting or new or interesting is ever going to happen again … the future is just going to be a vast, conforming suburb of the soul.
Fritz Stern
Born: February 2, 1926
Died: May 18, 2016 (aged 90)
Bio: Fritz Richard Stern was a German-born American historian of German history, Jewish history and historiography. He was a University Professor Emeritus and a provost at New York's Columbia University.
Known for:
- Five Germanys I Have Known (2006)
- The politics of cultural despair (1961)
- Gold and Iron (1977)







