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Convicting Mladić, who stood accused for his involvement in implementing and orchestrating the forcible transfer and eventual elimination of the Bosnian Muslim population.
This debate offered an opportunity to reflect on the respective merits of capitalism and socialism (the Jacobin representatives’ preferred alternative) and lessons from the past that might help us to build a better tomorrow.
Instead of emulating the Western experience, are increasingly pursuing indigenous paths to modernity.
Fear of individual and cultural extinction is both a cause and a product of the nostalgia so widespread in both Europe and America today.
It has almost been forgotten that the concept of privilege, and critiques of privilege as the source of society’s ills, are nothing new in history.
One important – and overlooked – effect was how it changed the idea of the term “Left” in political terminology.
The central problem with the university administration’s opinion column was that none of the accusations were relevant to the fieldwork and research in question.
Why did a flimsy interpretation of a small artefact from provincial Sweden seem so important to the English-language world’s most powerful news outlets?
We should work to devise effective solutions to continue that progress, rather resorting to using all men as scapegoats for the violence that remains.
“We’ve successfully banished the notion of punishment in that realm,” Sapolsky writes. “It may take centuries, but we can do the same in all our current arenas of punishment.”
Transferring guilt across generations from ancient ancestors to their heirs was highly convenient for religious authorities.
They witnessed the defeat of the Ottoman Turks at the siege of Vienna, ending a thousand years of implacable Islamic expansion.
It is important to follow the lead of both Applebaum and Fitzpatrick in standing firm in pursuit of the truth, whatever it might be.
For Aristides, Rome was the ultimate polis: the dispenser of just government, and through its unique constitution the embodiment of principled republicanism.
Many Russian people lived through the Soviet experience. Not so for the Confederacy.