Not the Greek muse, just a casual fan. I study the Third Reich. The demands to READ THEORY will continue until you have actually read Christopher Browning and Ian Kershaw.
This is correct - the 1920s were appalling, predominantly though not exclusively on the Red side. The war also created a famine almost as severe as 1932-1933 (the primary reason it was not being Lenin's willingness to allow Hoover and the ARA in, if only so he could resume grain exports).
Sasho TodorovIt's not about that. I think everyone has memory holed the utterly absurd bloodbath that was the Lenin years, which included several openly genocidal campaigns.
This is quite likely the lowest murder rate in American history, ever.
U.S. murder rate approaches a record lowA few years ago, experts worried about a "new normal" of elevated violent crime in the U.S. Now the country is flirting with breaking its all-time low murder ratewww.npr.orgJeff AsherFirst look at murder through July (still waiting on the Texas cities) shows murder is still falling at unprecedented levels in the United States with no signs of levelling.
This is true - and certainly, there *were* firm believers in the Greater East Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere. Take, for instance, the IJA soldiers who stayed behind in Vietnam to fight alongside the Viet Minh against the French! But the concept was *far* more racialized than US equivalents.
Jeremy SalkeldThe extent of both Taiwanese and Korean willing participation in the Japanese imperial project, with the implicit hope of securing greater status in a postwar order, gets obscured a bit by the abject failure of the Japanese war effort and the nationalist turn in both polities.
It used to be a bigger deal because of all the fossil fuels potentially under the ice, but with the electric transition the Arctic matters far less than it did 15 or even 10 years ago.
Isaiah BishopWith regards to the icrebreaker thing, i think i am quite skeptical the arctic will matter that much
Around 30% of the US was either foreign-born or second-generation immigrants during WW2, compared to just 2.6% for Imperial Japan (mostly Koreans from Japan's imperial holdings). Seems to be something a pattern when small ethnostates go up against large, multiethnic pluralist democracies.
NiedThat's right!
Much as I detest Modi and the BJP, Swachh Bharat truly is an outstanding policy success.
Terror Management Theory Rules Everything Around MeThe campaign to install toilets in even poor, rural homes and end the custom of defecating outside in India was shockingly successful, and only happened in the past 15 years.
This is really not good, both from the obvious humanitarian catastrophe and also from the awful "hordes of brown people crossing into Europe" [no one crossed into Europe] Camp-of-the-Saints-style imagery that the far right is already running with.
Jorge LiboreiroUpdate: over 37,500 people have already returned from Ceuta to Morocco, according to the Spanish Interior Ministry. This represents 75% of all arrivals. Death toll rises to 57.
The people who think China is going to solve its demographic issues with immigration have never been to China. Or looked at the scale of immigration needed, honestly (around 240 million people by 2050).
Zoomer AntimillenarianYeah but then you look at what NIMBY nutjobs can pull off in places w/o democracy [looks over at China and the hukou].
It's a selective reimagining of the 1930s - the idea being that the Communists were persecuted while the liberal parties threw in with the Third Reich (in practice, both were persecuted and the KPD celebrated Hitler for crushing moderate socialists). It's also redemptive given Molotov-Ribbentrop.
Vituperative ErbWhat is the origin of this persistent ahistorical meme that “liberals choose fascism over socialism?” You see it pop up constantly and like I don’t expect everyone to be a historian but “who was on which side of WW2” seems like a reasonable expectation
Caveat: this is one poll, and this happens EVERY cycle (with Republicans hopping off the fence and "coming home" to the GOP in red states).
Burnham Down The HouseI apologize for complaining about the fundraising emails, Gina
The issue right now is the gaping hole in the tax code that lets someone with huge wealth in stocks borrow against that (the loan does not count as income), thereby avoiding ever having to pay capital gains tax. It's not clear what the solution is, but wealth taxes were designed to address this.
"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux(FWIW, taxes do need to go up - like, my goodness look at the deficit! - but not to pre-Reagan levels; we 'over-cut' taxes post-1980 in my view - but wealth taxes seem like a really ineffective way to raise taxes. I'd favor new upper brackets, plus moving capital gains onto the income schedule)
It's an issue of jagged frontiers, what originally drove Peter Thiel insane was not having a flying car like he was promised in the Jetsons (yes, really) because he was totally incapable of understanding this.
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