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What happened when I put “total” back in “totalitarianism”
Feeling a bit foolish. When I came to the section on totalitarianism in my world history tome, I had to smack myself on the head. I’d never actually considered that the primary word in totalitarianism was “total.” Right now we’re … Continue reading
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Tagged A History of the Modern World, authoritarianism, BlueSky, CDC, constitutional government, democratic republic, Donald Trump, fascism, Fox News, Jamelle Bouie, Jewish science, Kennedy Center, National Guardsman, National Institutes of Health, Nazi science, New York Post, simulacra, Smithsonian, totalitarianism, Trump's face banners
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And then there was light! (When was that? Where?)
Here I am, once again bearing a torch against despair. There are some realities that might lighten your mood or shift it into resistence (a lot better than despair), one of which is Lawrence Tribe’s talk with Ali Velshi on … Continue reading
Posted in Government, Human rights, political campaigns, Politics, The Facts of Life, The god problem, Trumpism, War
Tagged " RR Palmer, A History of the Modern World, Age of Enlightenment, Ali Velshi, conservatism, Edmund Burke, humanitarianism, Joel Colton, Lawrence Tribe, liberalism, nationalism, plutocracy, US Constitution, white supremacists
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