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Turning factoids into facts: Mars, Hitler and history
Let’s All Go to Mars! So many MAGAts, including the MAGAt King, have been heralding our imminent landing and community-building on Mars, presumably via one of Elon Musk’s rockets. Another presumption: it is one which isn’t prone to shattering mid-air … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Fascism, Government, Human rights, Immigration, The Facts of Life
Tagged "History of the Modern World", Adolph Hitler, Elon Musk, Galactic Cosmic Radiation, George Santayana, German Chancellor, German Communist Party, German elections 1932, German President, history repeating itself, JJ Palmer, Joel Colton, kidney failure, Mars trip, Nazi Party, Paul von Hindenburg, Poland, Reichstag, SpaceX, tesseract, Weimar Republic, World War II
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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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In a history of the modern world, a sudden burst of glory
I’ve been slowly reading a 1965 edition of “A History of the Modern World,” by R.R. Palmer and Joel Colton, both of whom I’ve come to admire. How can anyone compress a history of the entire world in one volume, … Continue reading
Posted in The Facts of Life, War
Tagged " RR Palmer, "The History of the Modern World, Finland, history of science, Joel Colton, Pomerania, science denial, Sweden
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