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Totalitarianism illustrated the human capacity to begin, that power to think and to act in ways that are new, contingent, and unpredictable… But the paradox of totalitarian novelty was that it represented an assault on that very ability to act and think as a unique individual. This new ::More

We saw in a previous post some evidence about the deep roots of nazism in German culture. I believe that German monstrosity will never stop inciting discussion, even more because it comes from a European people. First thing we learn, then, is this strange conclusion – that the same people and ::More

Some people spend money, others spend lives… Henry Morgenthau, a member of the Roosevelt government, writing a few decades ago, after the end of the second world war, explains why Germans have been so ready to spend our lives. (Copying from his book Germany is our Problem): Heinrich Heine ::More

Olivier Clément was born in 1921 at Aniane in southern France. He studied the history of the great religions under Alphonse Dupront, a member of the Resistance, at Montpellier University, then taught history at the Lycée Louis-le-Grand in Paris for 40 years. He encountered the Christian East ::More

Those who suffered the German horror of World War II, perhaps would not have the disposition to use the symbol of this horror, Hitler, for fun. The rest of us, at least some of us, allow even this, especially when it is tasteful. In the movie below, Stavros, from a blog I mention very often, My ::More