“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” – George Santayana, The Life of Reason, 1905. From the series Great Ideas of Western Man.
https://contrarian.substack.com/p/this-is-what-dictatorship-looks-like We’re angry. Angry that college students are being snatched off the street, families are being torn apart, peaceful protests are met with unnecessary force,… Read More »This is what dictatorship looks like
https://www.loc.gov/item/2012638094
https://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/07/opinion/lady-liberty-held-hostage.html
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Linda McMahon: “Universities should continue to be able to do research as long as they’re abiding by the laws and in sync, I think, with… Read More »Educational Freedom?
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSlUtN2ypOY
On May 8, political scientists Steven Levitsky, Lucan Way, and Daniel Ziblatt published an op-ed in the New York Times reminding readers that most modern… Read More »Competitive Authoritarianism
The administration’s hunkering down in right-wing ideology showed as well in Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s public attack on U.S. ally Germany for declaring the… Read More »Authoritarianism Must Be Stopped