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āThe Left,ā in the singular, is a simplified expression of the diversity of leftist movements[1]. By āthe Left,ā I mean all organized…
I am writing this text with the Americas and Europe in mind, but the phenomena I analyze apply, with modifications, to other…
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The Moment of Bifurcation In the scientific field, the term ābifurcationā was first used by Henri PoincarĆ©, but in the second half…
In what is perhaps the best book on Hitler, Allan Bullock wrote in Hitler: A Study in Tyranny that Hitlerās philosophy is…
One of the most influential interpretations of 20th-century fascism is that fascism was a rebellion against the secularism of the modern era,…
Israel in particular, but also the United States, have been breathing new life into the concept of decapitation as a weapon of…
I write to you with a heavy heart and a free mind. We cannot allow the Cuban people to die and the…
To understand the qualitative leap of the ongoing catastrophe in the Middle East and the process that could transform it into a…
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