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The Problem With “When They See Us”
The Netflix four-part miniseries When They See Us, a dramatization of the story of the Central Park Five—the black and Hispanic teenagers convicted in the 1989 rape of a white jogger in New York and later exonerated by a confession and DNA...
Ron Radosh
As usual, Cathy Young presents a balanced assessments of what happened the night of the attack in Central Park, and what involvement that day the Central Park Five may have had.
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Truth Hurts
The Soviet Union treated history as a tool to be used to gather support for whatever the Communist party line happened to be at the moment. As a recent New York Times editorial correctly pointed out, “authoritarian regimes are firm believers in the...
The Problem With the Democrats' 'No Enemies to the Left' Strategy
Last week, former Vice President Joe Biden was compelled to renounce the Hyde Amendment, which until relatively recently had marked the only durable truce in the abortion wars. A California audience booed John Hickenlooper—the former governor of...
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Ron Radosh
Greg Weiner's column on the phenomenon of "No enemies on the left" is the best piece I've read about this. All Dems should read it, but of course, they won't
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On Its 70th Anniversary, Nineteen Eighty-Four Still Feels Important and Inspiring
Nineteen Eighty-Four is divided into three parts, the second of which is structured around Winston Smith’s love affair with Julia, a co-worker at the Ministry of Truth. Their romance begins with Smith offering Julia the sort of smooth talk that...
The Ghosts of D-Day
The battle is long over, but the fight against extremist illiberal politics is not.
Ron Radosh
David Frum has a brilliant and necessary article on D-Day and its relation to the growing Trumpist illiberalism here and in Europe--MUST reading
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Opinion: Enhancing the historical record is scholars’ foremost task
Forty years ago, two unanswered questions loomed over the murky history of the FBI’s infamous...
Ron Radosh
David Garrow explains why a scholar must publish new documents, whatever the consequences. Bravo to him!
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Why Elizabeth Warren Matters
The contrast between Elizabeth Warren and Joe Biden is stark: Biden is comfort food; Warren is food for thought with, to some tastes, a dollop of spinach. Warren stands virtually alone in the field by offering comprehensive, and specific, proposals...
Frederick Douglass Is Not Dead!
And neither is the contest to define his legacy, as three recent books show.
LRB · Jan-Werner Müller · Populism and the People
They do not all look the same. But group them together and they clearly form a political family: Orbán, Erdoğan, Kaczyński, Trump, Modi, perhaps Netanyahu, Bolsonaro for sure. It would be a mistake to homogenise what are, after all, fundamentally...
D-Day’s Dying Legacy
The last survivors of the Normandy invasion—and history's worst war—are almost gone. How long will the international system they helped create survive them?
Ron Radosh
The legacy of WW II and Normandy is being lost, as Michael Hirsh rightfully points out
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In Support of David Frenchism
Sohrab Ahmari's worldview is completely incompatible with basic tenets of liberalism.
Ron Radosh
In AI, Dolibar Rohac has an important column on the new Ur-fascism of the populist Trumpist Right, defending David French in the fight against the vision of Sohrab Ahmari
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The Failure to Define Fascism Today
Having only a hazy idea of what, exactly, fascism consists of makes it hard to explain why fascist rhetoric needs to be excluded from public discourse.
Ron Radosh
Here's a sound discussion of the nature of fascism, often misunderstood by both the Right and the Left
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Did American outlets refuse to publish the MLK sex transcripts?
The transcripts report MLK taking part in orgies, coercing women into sex acts with his friends, and laughing as he watches a minister rape a parishioner
Ron Radosh
Do you doubt historian David Garrow's research on MLK? If so, read his interview, in which he answers his critics
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The Death of Morton Sobell and the End of the Rosenberg Affair » Mosaic
Ron Radosh
David Evanier has written a powerful and essential article about the life of Morton Sobell, and the mentality of old Jewish Stalinists.
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Former Pitt professor reassessing view of MLK after he uncovers new FBI documents
Former Pitt prof David Garrow won the 1986 Pulitzer Prize for his Martin Luther King Jr. biography, but new documents have him reassessing King’s life
Poland’s Government Is Systematically Silencing Opposition Voices
Adam Michnik was a hero of the anti-communist struggle. Now his renowned newspaper, Gazeta Wyborcza, is under attack from a ruling party that refuses to…
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Ron Radosh
Poland has a populist-nationalist govt., but it sounds like the old Communist regime to me
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What Are We Supposed to Think of Martin Luther King Jr. Now?
The British newsmagazine Standpoint hit newsstands in England today featuring an article titled “The Troubling Legacy of Martin Luther King” with the subtitle “Newly revealed documents portray the great civil rights leader as a sexual libertine who...
Ron Radosh
MLK's legacy in the fight for civil rights is still to be honored, despite the devastating news presented today by David J. Garrow. Link to his article in my response
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No Heroes Left: The MLK Revelations
Is the moral of it all the danger of having heroes?
Ron Radosh
At PJ Media, Roger L. Simon nails it in his discussion of the meaning of the David J. Garrow article on MLK. This will be a big deal, and might create a storm when Garrow's piece is online tomorrow
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The Fall of Communism in TV’s The Weissensee Saga
<p>The most impressive educational aspect of <em>The Weissensee</em> <em>Saga </em>is that it presents a realistic and convincing portrait of the differing lives and reactions of East German individuals in the final decade of the GDR’s...
Ron Radosh
HNN recommends this series on Communism in East Germany---It sounds terrific and well worth watching
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Ron Radosh
The single best TV series on how horrendous Communism was to live under is The Weissensee Saga, now on HMz Choice. Do not miss it
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You Think It’s Bad Now? Wait for Next Year’s Show Trials
Koestler and Orwell and Kundera described the hall-of-mirrors horror of totalitarian states. Trump’s gang is getting away with it in a democracy.
Ron Radosh
Michael Tomasky offers a frightening but very, very important article on what could be the fruits of Trumpist conspiracy theories
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