"Why did so many millions of people, why did elites and masses both, converge around ideas of grand breaks with the world that was, the ruthless enforcement of a new order and a new man? Because the old world had discredited itself." www.liberalcurrents.com/ideas-matter/

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"Slobodian's commitment to the 'three hards' narrative also leads him to neglect important criticisms… Sexism is almost entirely absent from his story, despite the importance of anti-feminism to new fusionism, the New Right, and anti-democratic arguments resting on the 'hard biology' of gender."

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"In the years after 1945, communism showed that it had no answers. It gave its people stagnation and repression. Meanwhile, the West rejuvenated itself." www.liberalcurrents.com/ideas-matter/

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This is so fucking good www.liberalcurrents.com/fukuyamas-gl...

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I honestly think it’s less about the soundbite and more about the fact that human beings are intuitive social cue processors, incredibly attuned to any subtle indication that one person outranks the other, and the refusal to name someone you’re trying to criticize parses as “he scared”

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