Friday, April 19, 2024
BOLSHEVIK INHUMANITY
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A number of historians have rightly emphasised the point that the February revolution in 1917 did not provoke a counter-revolution. The over...
Friday, April 12, 2024
THE MEMORY HOLE
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As soon as Winston had dealt with each of the messages, he clipped his speakwritten corrections to the appropriate copy of the Times and pu...
Thursday, March 28, 2024
SOFT BIGOTRY
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You might expect policymakers to be scrambling to shore up academic standards. In fact, they are doing the opposite. The Economist March 18,...
Friday, March 8, 2024
ROUSSEAU
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The antinomian temptation Translated into the political sphere, Rousseau’s ideas about freedom and virtue are a recipe for totalitarianism...
Wednesday, February 21, 2024
ON GUARD
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‘You keep speaking, and I’ll stand guard.’ The Morning Dispatch 21 February 2024 Threats of political violence are more common than you th...
Monday, February 5, 2024
KHMER ROUGE
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Unlike Mao, whom he admired and followed in many respects, the leader of the Khmer Rouge, Pol Pot, did not waste time on “reeducation” but...
Thursday, January 25, 2024
FEDERALIST ONE
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History will teach us that the former has been found a much more certain road to the introduction of despotism than the latter, and that o...
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