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Far-left politics and radical universalism (including its Stalinist variant) seduced countless intellectuals during the twentieth century. Yet, this absorbing subject still needs to be deciphered and...
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Mr. Iliescu, there is an old saying according to which the dead never return. I don’t think this is true....Read More
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In times of terror and rage like ours, remaining sober is the vital thing. Murderous fanaticism is not Islam. Fringe...Read More
View ArticleOf Honor and Despair in Dark Times
In 1943, with confirmation of the Nazis’ implementation of what the ossified bureaucratic language called Endlösung (the final solution) -- the extermination of all European Jews -- Hannah Arendt...
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In more than one way, I am an offspring of the Spanish Civil War. Both my parents were there, fighting...Read More
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“Hungary is removing statue of philosopher György (Georg) Lukács: He was Marxist and Jewish,” so read a headline in the...Read More
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45 doesn’t know what the third person is. There is a nascent personality cult around 45, perpetuated by the man...Read More
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In the midst of the global carnage now known as World War I, the Polish-Jewish-German Marxist thinker Rosa Luxemburg wrote...Read More
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