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Historian Richard J. Evans discusses his new book with Jim Kelly, explaining why top Nazis came from the middle class, whether a new Hitler is possible, and his love for Babylon Berlin … Continue readingBritish Historian Richard J. Evans on Today’s Authoritarian Leaders, and His New Book, Hitler’s People
Charles T. Rubin in The New Atlantis: Because of this renewed sense of urgency to deal with the philosophical and political underpinnings of the technological future, it is well worth
by Robert Muir-Wood at OUP: Who was Charles Darwin the geologist? Was he a nephew, or maybe a cousin, of the illustrious naturalist, who first published the theory of evolution
by Harmain Ahmer in Dawn: Following the ‘Fall of Dhaka’, the non-Bengalis in Bangladesh were subjected to ‘denationalisation’ by the Government of Pakistan, as the government did not allow non-Bengalis
Paul Cooper at Literary Hub: One Sumerian epic poem called Enmerkar and the Lord of Aratta gives the first known story about the invention of writing, by a king who has to
Continue readingWhat the Epic of Gilgamesh Reveals About Sumerian Society
by Tom Jenks at OUP Blog: Reading is good; rereading is better. I can’t say with certainty how many times—forty? fifty?—I’ve read James Baldwin’s “Sonny’s Blues,” only that for more than
Continue readingRacism, Jazz, and James Baldwin’s “Sonny Blues”
Donald Nieman at The Conversation: Following the attempted assassination of Donald Trump, community leaders, clergy and politicians including President Joe Biden have called on Americans to tone down white-hot political
Continue reading“Better Angels of Our Nature”: For Abraham Lincoln it Was More than Words
Sonny Bunch at The Bulwark: I’m joined this week by Thomas Doherty, Brandeis professor and author of Hollywood and Hitler, 1933-1939, and Maria Elena de las Carreras, assistant professor at
Gary Saul Morson in Commentary: Western intellectuals expected that novelist Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, once safely in the West after his expulsion from the Soviet Union in 1974, would enthusiastically endorse its
Continue readingSolzhenitsyn Understood the West and Predicted its Future With Frightening Precision
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s Commencement Address at Harvard University in 8 June 1978. {Russian audio with English-translation audio overlay; and English subtitles.} PLEASE NOTE: THERE DOES NOT EXIST A VIDEO WITH ONLY
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W. Joseph Campbell at The Conversation: Twenty years before Watergate, then-Sen. Richard Nixon’s national political ambitions were in peril. He was accused of dipping into a private, $18,000 slush fund