And this kind of tilts the balance between totalitarianism and democracy in favor of totalitarianism.
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And this kind of tilts the balance between totalitarianism and democracy in favor of totalitarianism.
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The historical trauma in Europe was the Holocaust, as well as Nazi totalitarianism and then Communist totalitarianism.
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Gandhi saw the link between European imperialism in Asia and Africa and totalitarianism in Europe decades before Hannah Arendt elaborated on it in " The Origins of Totalitarianism " (1951).
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The distinction between totalitarianism and authoritarianism in political theory is not one of degree—with totalitarianism at the top of an ascending scale of evil—but one of kind.
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What was it about totalitarianism for Arendt that was new?
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What strikes you when reading The Origins of Totalitarianism now?
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Yet there is no criticism of these films as totalitarianism.
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For conservatives, fascism is totalitarianism masquerading as the nanny state.
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The word the twentieth century coined for that was totalitarianism.
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She said studying totalitarianism was like trying to unpack a crystal.
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THE FUTURE IS HISTORY: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia, by Masha Gessen.
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" Another phrase they've used in the past is "totalitarianism for Christ.
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As the decades passed, the monstrosity was given a name: totalitarianism.
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Still, the specter of socialism evokes fear of a new totalitarianism.
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The headline read, "Anti-totalitarianism day: No permits for Singapore assemblies".
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"This is what ruthless and paranoid totalitarianism looks like," Sasse said.
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The Borg are a fantasy of totalitarianism, not a technological prediction.
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Many critics accused the organizers of normalizing the horrors of totalitarianism.
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Her idea that totalitarianism is essentially organized loneliness seems awfully relevant now.
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How do we get from a loss of shared reality to totalitarianism?
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Democracy was the true totalitarianism because it insisted undemocratic systems were illegitimate.
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Scientists function better under conditions of freedom than they do under totalitarianism.
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They operate under principles of totalitarianism that relegate people to certain classes.
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In the 20th, America partially healed the divisions between democracy and totalitarianism.
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The fight against fascist totalitarianism in WWII is a case in point.
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And not dull in a productive "I'm learning something about totalitarianism" way.
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I think it's the worst totalitarianism at work in the world today.
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Among the optimists were three Viennese exiles who launched a fightback against totalitarianism.
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Keynes, Berlin, Karl Popper and the Austrians confronted the seductive evils of totalitarianism.
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THE FUTURE IS HISTORY How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia By Masha Gessen 515 pp.
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No one knew better how fragile was the border between idealism and totalitarianism.
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Our category on Tyrants and Totalitarianism, for example, includes Hannah Arendt's "The Origins of Totalitarianism," F. A. Hayek's "The Road to Serfdom," George Orwell's "Animal Farm," Aldous Huxley's "Brave New World," and "The Communist Manifesto," by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels.
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It's very interesting that it's The Origins of Totalitarianism that's being cited and read.
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Sales also were up for Hannah Arendt's seminal nonfiction analysis "The Origins of Totalitarianism."
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Gender, sexuality, and emotion are, slowly but surely, rejecting the traditional totalitarianism of masculinity.
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He sounds a tough note on "Islamic totalitarianism", and promises to deport illegal immigrants.
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It's got torture, totalitarianism, rape, drugs, environmental ruin, and that's just the first stanza.
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In the first part of the 20163th century, they saw the rise of totalitarianism.
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I'm not saying fascism and totalitarianism are things we should be completely unworried about.
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Unlike fascism or totalitarianism, political meritocracy is compatible with most democratic values and practices.
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Totalitarianism on Xinjiang's scale may be hard to replicate, even across most of China.
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It's sort of like society in general, but it's more enforced in a totalitarianism.
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But it was always exciting because we were on a mission to prevent totalitarianism.
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The goal of the Macintosh Division was preventing totalitarianism and worldwide domination by IBM.
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Serena Williams, explained A 1951 book about totalitarianism is suddenly flying off the shelves.
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Another was "The Handmaid's Tale," on Hulu, about life for women under patriarchal totalitarianism.
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To stand up to creeping totalitarianism, we needn't throw ourselves under the tank treads.
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"Our objection is to those forces of totalitarianism," Mr. Brin said at the time.
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When they hear him, they hear someone who wants universal health care, not totalitarianism.
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Nor did other scholars, like Hannah Arendt, who instead characterize Stalinist Russia as totalitarianism.
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My Dad, however, associates communism with Stalinist Russia – and thus associates it with totalitarianism.
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For a long time, the notion that truth threatens totalitarianism was taken for granted.
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The utopias of justice seem largely to have been eviscerated by 20th-century totalitarianism.
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America is not burdened with the history of tyranny and totalitarianism that haunts Russia.
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Was that the cracking sound of the future interrupting centuries of empire and totalitarianism?
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It has everything: totalitarianism, Tchaikovsky, and a masked man who is somehow, erm, very attractive.
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Most importantly, we have to recognize that a world of technological totalitarianism is not inevitable.
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The American ideal will outlast them as it did European religious wars, Communism, and totalitarianism.
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His first book was Winning the Unwinnable War: America's Self-Crippled Response to Islamic Totalitarianism.
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" His first book was "Winning the Unwinnable War: America's Self-Crippled Response to Islamic Totalitarianism.
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Today, our political order faces new threats, not unlike the totalitarianism of the twentieth century.
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Topics might include: God, death, erotica, totalitarianism, the nature or existence of evil, white supremacy.
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As the subtitle of her book suggests, she believes that totalitarianism has reclaimed the country.
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Quotable: "We are heading toward totalitarianism, a fascist state," a Muslim member of Parliament said.
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But exposing and criticizing Islamism is not Islamophobia, it is a criticism of a totalitarianism.
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Also, I've had "The Origins of Totalitarianism," by Hannah Arendt, on my pile for years.
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Carl Friedrich is the best on totalitarianism, and Hannah Arendt of course on its emergence.
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There's a reason she refused to give some grand historical narrative about the roots of totalitarianism.
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Each was troubled by the Anglo-Saxon countries' complacency that totalitarianism could never happen to them.
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Popper sought to blow up the intellectual foundations of totalitarianism and explain how to think freely.
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We crush totalitarianism, and when that was done we helped our enemies give birth to democracy.
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And they slaughter infidels and unbelievers in the name of realizing their vision of Islamic totalitarianism.
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" In this context, he asked: "Can our government meet the challenge of totalitarianism and remain democratic?
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Casual references to twentieth century totalitarianism have been cropping up lately like clover in the lawn.
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HANNAH ARENDT, in "The Origins of Totalitarianism", cautioned against the glib application of the T-word.
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Reagan's famous half-hour commercial for Goldwater described the welfare state as the path to totalitarianism.
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"Totalitarian" is the wrong word for the capitalist project because totalitarianism is a disease of governments.
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Her book "The Origins of Totalitarianism" in 1951 established her worldwide reputation as a political philosopher.
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Totalitarianism seems safely in the past in this book, the movement of people a natural right.
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Resistance evokes the struggle against totalitarianism, conveying personal defiance and official powerlessness at the same time.
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When Arendt spoke of dark times, she was not exclusively referring to the horrors of totalitarianism.
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I asked him about sycophants in politics, the psychology of totalitarianism, and, of course, Donald Trump.
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But Arendt and Friedrich were very clear that totalitarianism is exceptional as a form of politics.
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They viewed religion classes in schools, provided by Protestant and Catholic churches, as a bulwark against totalitarianism.
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"My family has lived under totalitarianism, be it fascist, be it communist," he said at the time.
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Forcing people to listen to the radio, he said, is a step on the road to totalitarianism.
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It might seem that Central Europe, once home to Nazis and Stalinists, is slipping back into totalitarianism.
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What I want to emphasize is the instruction of the people who survived and learned about totalitarianism.
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I think Story of O deals with similar themes (and certainly repression is one tool of totalitarianism).
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Some protesters carrying Confederate flags shouted "cowards" and "totalitarianism" as it was removed, The Times-Picayune reported.
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During his campaign, Mr Fillon declared that "the enemy is Islamic totalitarianism" and called for "strict" immigration controls.
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He succeeded; the book became a weapon in the Western fightback against totalitarianism in the 1940s and beyond.
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Progressivism, Schlesinger argued, had become ''if not an accomplice of totalitarianism, at least an accessory before the fact.
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Hannah Arendt's " The Origins of Totalitarianism " suggested that dictatorial energies draw on the loneliness of the modern subject.
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Margaret Atwood's "The Testaments," which examines the connections between totalitarianism and despoliation, shared the Booker Prize last year.
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Would the nation save itself or go the way of Germany and of Italy, seeking comfort in totalitarianism?
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This is really the essence of totalitarianism, and The Death of Stalin satirizes the hell out of it.
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That's why she was blasted for writing The Origins of Totalitarianism, because she wouldn't give a big historical narrative.
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We live in an age in which there is an "ism" for everything: communism, fascism, Nazism, totalitarianism, nationalism, etc.
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This is a dark joke; it isn't meant to minimize the horrors of China's march into information-age totalitarianism.
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"Invitation to a Beheading," in which Nabokov treats us to, then liberates us from, the bad farce of totalitarianism.
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What the series calls "imaginary Greece" has been used to fuel totalitarianism as well as democracy (literally, "people power").
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Later in life he gave speeches and lectures well into his nineties, warning against the destructive force of totalitarianism.
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Within the year, what had begun as an idealistic, progressive uprising would end — like Iran's, like Egypt's — in totalitarianism.
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A month after the election, her 1951 book The Origins of Totalitarianism was selling at 16 times its normal rate.
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What's brilliant about The Origins of Totalitarianism is she's saying you need to invent new methods for understanding new things.
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Democracy is a difficult experiment and it always has the chance to slide into authoritarianism or, more like Gilead, totalitarianism.
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Her narrative climaxes with the annexation of Crimea, the moment that she identifies as the crystallisation of Russia's new totalitarianism.
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What distresses us is the feeling that Mr. Xi is resurrecting totalitarianism — and bringing us back to the Mao era.
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Mr. Stone was promoting an upcoming movie about techno-totalitarianism, so the connection probably made sense when he said it.
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People are returning to earlier books about totalitarianism, and fascism, and political oppression in droves — in the US, at least.
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Thus, totalitarianism is on the rise, and democracies are unable to maintain the protection of basic freedoms on the internet.
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" Pope Francis, above in Aglona, Latvia, praised the country for weathering totalitarianism to become "a place of dialogue and encounter.
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More to the point, he is turning back the clock — not (yet) to totalitarianism, but to something akin to it.
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Totalitarianism was one big lie perpetrated on human beings reduced to the often hopeless quest for survival in a fog.
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Society's cruelty to mutants can be a metaphor for racism, or homophobia, or totalitarianism, or all at the same time.
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In 1943, amid fears of totalitarianism, Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black famously wrote in West Virginia Board of Education v.
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Mr. Xi's model is not totalitarianism, which is passé, but "techtarianism," a surveillance state based on advanced facial recognition technology.
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What "sinister symptoms" that "bring totalitarianism nearer," as Orwell phrased it in his letter, are hinted at in the headlines?
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"The Zen of Kim: How I Abandoned Totalitarianism and Found Inner — and World — Peace Through Buddhism" by Kim Jong-un.
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George Orwell's "1984," a fictional condemnation of totalitarianism, is widely read because it is considered a classic of world literature.
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Mr Fillon has sounded a tough note on immigration, warned about "Islamic totalitarianism" and voted against the legalisation of gay marriage.
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He used sci-fi allegories to slip past network censors and make sharp statements about totalitarianism, xenophobia, conspiracy theorists, and more.
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It confirms Kadare to be the best writer at work today who remembers—almost aggressively so, refusing to forget—European totalitarianism.
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The bands at the time were anti-communist—or at least against totalitarianism—and criticised the hypocrisy of the communist government.
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"Cinders," in which a reform-school production of "Cinderella" becomes an allegory for totalitarianism, was among his most widely produced plays.
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In part, it derives from factors beyond our control — nativism in the West, Hindu supremacy in India or totalitarianism in China.
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Conspiracies against democracy are everywhere; truth is under siege; totalitarianism is making a comeback; "resistance" is the last refuge of citizens.
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An anti-government protester uses a Donald Trump mask during a Global Anti-Totalitarianism Rally in Hong Kong on Sept. 93.
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Koch — who played the principal victim of totalitarianism in "The Lives of Others" — plays this monster with true movie-star panache.
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In a Wellesley classroom he could not avoid stressing that Communism and totalitarianism had stunted Russian literature for a quarter-century.
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Look for those who are in trouble — thanks to totalitarianism, or social persecution, or alien monsters — and do what you can.
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He wrote a book called Conquering Islamic Totalitarianism, and said France needed to work with Putin to defeat ISIS in Syria.
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Arendt said those things conspired to create a constellation which could produce totalitarianism in the form that she was talking about then.
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They had served honorably in World War II and Korea, had even led large invasion fleets to free captive continents from totalitarianism.
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" Bernstein criticized Trump's comments, saying that the president's insistence that fake news is the enemy of the people has "echoes of totalitarianism.
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You first wanted to do this piece of performance art, which reflects on totalitarianism and the victims of violence, in Nuremberg, Germany.
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"Today is a battle between totalitarianism and the rule of law," one of the lawmakers, Dennis Kwok, told reporters on Sunday morning.
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Of course, the problem with humans is that the largest unit they come in is one; otherwise, totalitarianism would be a breeze.
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Experts might decry such preferences as "irrational," but allowing experts to dictate what people should want is the high road to totalitarianism.
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America isn't in the grips of totalitarianism, but the preconditions are there, namely a hollow and fractured society full of dislocated, angry people.
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"[Cultic behavior] has become totalitarianism when it has state power," Stein said, which is exactly what is going on in The Handmaid's Tale.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads LONDON — Totalitarianism in the digital age need not manifest in the actions of dictators and hawkeyed fascists.
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In a totalitarianism, of course, I'd be shot immediately, because they go for the writers and artists first, people who have independent voices.
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If there's an optimistic version of the creeping totalitarianism trope, oddly, it's one where the vast majority of people have no power whatsoever.
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Islamic totalitarianism will wither only when our enemies are convinced the West is willing to defend itself with overwhelming force and unflagging commitment.
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Radu writes in the gallery's press release that Brătescu envisions Aesop as a metaphor for the artist — in particular, the artist under totalitarianism.
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PARIS (Reuters) - Conservative presidential candidate Francois Fillon on Friday said the fight against "Islamist totalitarianism" should be the priority of France's next president.
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" Alexei Monroe, an academic who has also written extensively about the group, said, "They wanted to explore the relationship between art and totalitarianism.
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" Xu Zhangrun, too, points out its inherent paradoxes, notably the ones revealed by the constant expansion of "big data totalitarianism" and "WeChat terror.
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Designed after World War II to immunize the country against totalitarianism, Germany's political system now also serves as a firewall against information warfare.
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Gradually, the society of the resettled succumbed to the seduction of totalitarianism, like the surface of a lake caught in a cold spell.
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He vows to "conquer Islamic totalitarianism," promises to clamp down on mass immigration, and calls for a closer relationship with Vladimir Putin's Russia.
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For all of the jokes about his chilling efficiency, Saban's post-human shtick isn't all that far removed from Meyer's totalitarianism in Gainesville.
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"I oppose liberal totalitarianism," Mr. Malofeev said in an interview in the private meeting room at his stand, under a portrait of Mr. Putin.
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He fondly recalls the heady days of the late '213s and early '90s — when Soviet totalitarianism and South African apartheid collapsed in rapid succession.
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The result is something that's specific in its details and universal in its sentiment, a depiction of totalitarianism as a fear-driven group delusion.
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He confused unity with totalitarianism, truth with falsehood, Dreamers with born and raised American citizens, and, of course, neglected to mention the Russia investigation.
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He was speaking to the same hunger for a moral depth in public life that Schlesinger believed democracy needed in the fight against totalitarianism.
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It said that policing physical contact between individuals was a form of totalitarianism, and vowed to take legal action if the ruling was enforced.
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He is also co-author of Failing to Confront Islamic Totalitarianism, a contributor to Defending Free Speech, and editor of Winning the Unwinnable War.
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"A signal feature of modern totalitarianism was that it arose and came to power through the discontents of people's isolation and loneliness," he observes.
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" Gessen is a staff writer at The New Yorker and the author of several books, including "The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia.
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"In our fervor to halt the potential spread of totalitarianism, what incredible precedent are we setting in Vietnam?" he asked in an impassioned speech.
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Already strained by populism and identity politics, Europe is in danger of returning to the strife that produced totalitarianism in the 1930s, he warns.
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Today's move from YouTube is likely to generate a fresh round of outrage, along with warnings that we are on the slippery slope toward totalitarianism.
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Mr Soros, who is Jewish, was born in Hungary and experienced totalitarianism there under both the Nazis and the Communist regime, before emigrating to America.
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You can find ... There's no scripture that on its face is more theocratic and a better recipe for totalitarianism than Deuteronomy or Leviticus or Exodus.
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Churchill vehemently opposed this, in a hateful, long-running campaign that raised eyebrows—even back then—as verging on the undemocratic and verging on totalitarianism.
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We recoiled instinctively, believing that an excess of red at rallies could activate voters' latent associations with totalitarianism, a poor fit for a Democrat's campaign.
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Totalitarianism combines a system of terror, single-party rule, a centrally planned economy, command over the army and the media, and an all-encompassing ideology.
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The insistence on invoking totalitarianism obscures Ms Gessen's more insightful observations about how Russians continue to be shaped by the trauma of the Soviet past.
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But while CCF headquarters in Paris hoped that the journal would continue to cover issues of totalitarianism, its new editor George Polanyi had other ideas.
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People on the left see fascism as the endpoint of right-wing reactionary thinking, and people on the right see fascism as nanny-state totalitarianism.
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While the regime is seen as standing with us against Islamic State, or ISIS, Saudi Arabia embodies and exports its own brand of Islamic totalitarianism.
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"Here you have a prime example of the government turning its power against the citizens, and that is the definition of totalitarianism," Mr. Brennan said.
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America is not currently under the yoke of totalitarianism, but the preconditions are there, namely a hollow and fractured society full of dislocated, angry people.
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The work will be preceded by an introductory reading by Cristina Frias of a text by Hannah Arendt, well known for her writings on totalitarianism.
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Words that marked that century's course — Fascism, Communism, totalitarianism, Holocaust — have become weightless in the 21st century, fungible elements in a furious fake-news theater.
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Another book, published two years after "1984," also made Amazon's list of top 100 best sellers this week: Hannah Arendt's "The Origins of Totalitarianism" (1951).
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But this turn of events gives urgency to her main theme — the insidious influence of totalitarianism on the lives of those trapped under its boot.
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And in this respect we will share the skepticism of Hannah Arendt, whose core insight in her indispensable book "The Origins of Totalitarianism" is that the path to totalitarianism is cleared when the nation-state hyphen is severed, when the nation becomes an exclusive group that must defend itself through actions residing outside of the law and beyond the protections afforded by state institutions and procedures.
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What she understood — more than someone like [George] Orwell — is that you don't need to be a totalitarian state to exhibit the characteristic features of totalitarianism.
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But positive liberty is ripe for exploitation, Berlin reasoned, and may allow government to force its goals upon citizens in the name of freedom—enabling totalitarianism.
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"We're one step away from totalitarianism when I'm in front of the microwave in my kitchen and they can hear what I'm talking about," he said.
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When Hannah Arendt coined that phrase in The Origins of Totalitarianism (1951), she did it in the last of the three profile-writing styles, the analytical.
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" Meacham, a frequent critic of the president, said he thinks it is in the best interest of the Trump administration to stop playing this "totalitarianism card.
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"Resisting totalitarianism is no crime", read one of the banners carried by tens of thousands of people who joined a protest march against the court's decision.
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The director Oliver Stone has even mused that the augmented reality game is a troubling sign that as a society we are sliding into techno-totalitarianism.
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In 1995, during a visit to the former Nazi death camp in Bergen-Belsen, Herzog warned against the rise of new forms of exclusion and totalitarianism.
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"The internet, our greatest tool of emancipation, has been transformed into the most dangerous facilitator of totalitarianism we have ever seen," Assange had written in 2012.
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The Saudis spend millions on religious schools and books proselytizing its strain of Islamic totalitarianism worldwide; Islamic State spends a lot of time leveraging social media.
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As the Soviet era drew to a close in Russia and Eastern Europe, the Lithuanian punk band Antis became widely popular, soundtracking the collapse of totalitarianism.
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I'm certainly not an expert in feminism, or totalitarianism, or the Bible, and the people in the show are, so I have to bring in people.
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In that book and elsewhere, Milosz wrote powerfully about totalitarianism, anti-Semitism and nationalism, the topics that occupied European intellectuals for much of the 20th century.
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The essay-like "The City Builder," examining totalitarianism through the experiences of an architect, was banned in 1973, though a heavily edited version appeared in 1977.
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"Hey @marcorubio @Emma4Change s family fled Cuba to escape totalitarianism and live in freedom just like your family could you please respond to @SteveKingIA," Hogg tweeted.
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The show, which has included public readings of Hannah Arendt's "The Origins of Totalitarianism," will close on May 19653 with the release of a related book.
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The show, which has included public readings of Hannah Arendt's "The Origins of Totalitarianism," will close on May 3 with the release of a related book.
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But the strategy — claiming that any attempt to strengthen the social safety net or limit inequality will put us on a slippery slope to totalitarianism — endures.
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The future tyranny that Orwell feared, rooted in his witnessing of the rise of totalitarianism in the 1930s and 40s, did not succeed in its total domination.
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And I also think it just underscores and demonstrates the totalitarianism of the left, in the sense that they don&apost like something, they shut it down.
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Fillon, who has sought to reinforce his credentials as a hard-liner on security, added that fighting "Islamist totalitarianism" must be the priority for the next president.
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Meanwhile, the Saudi regime has invested millions of dollars setting up religious schools, distributing books and proselytizing across the globe for its preferred strain of Islamic totalitarianism.
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One of Orwell's most famous works, 1984 — with it's totalitarianism and eerie, Big Brother premise — has seen a renaissance in popularity this year with Trump in office.
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We could all stand to gain from Welles's unsparing eye that he cast time and again at the specters of totalitarianism, venal money worship, and moral turpitude.
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Totalitarianism rested, in Arendt's view, above all on the systematic refusal to engage reality, on the substitution of ideological fantasy and outright fiction for reason and empiricism.
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What about speech that's designed to drive a woman out of her workplace or to bully a teenager into suicide or to drive a democracy toward totalitarianism?
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It is an extraordinary transition from the horrors of totalitarianism under the Stalinist regime just decades before and it is singularly the work-in-progress of Putin.
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Two standbys for Western liberals — Hannah Arendt's "The Origins of Totalitarianism" and George Washington's Farewell Address, which outlines his argument for term limits — have always sold well.
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During that time, despite totalitarianism, Soviet film studios managed to produce the director Andrei Tarkovsky's work, and Moscow theaters staged productions that fell outside official cultural policy.
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The installation also aims to highlight the dangers of totalitarianism and how it can be prevented in America by the Constitution, the foundation said in a statement.
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They are not pointless any more than Rieux's efforts are, or the acts of defiance against murderous totalitarianism that lead straight to summary execution for their authors.
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To say, as he did, that the elected representatives of American democracy are worthless and that the people are everything is to lay the foundations of totalitarianism.
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Newspeak, the Ministry of Truth, the Inner Party, the Outer Party — that novel sampled and remixed a reality that Nazi and Soviet totalitarianism had already made apparent.
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The years of pointless bloodshed that brought Russia two revolutions turned out to be merely a foretaste of the decades of totalitarianism and total war to come.
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If Babylon Berlin has a thesis statement that might be it: It wants to tell the story of democracy undone by totalitarianism from the left and the right.
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Mr. Fillon described radical Islam as a "totalitarianism like the Nazis" to the cheers of an enthusiastic crowd, adding that France would need Russia's help to fight it.
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Mr. Iannucci's decision to have the performers speak in an array of accented English — from Brooklyn to Cockney — carries some political resonance, suggesting that totalitarianism knows no borders.
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The party's eventual candidate, Fillon, published a book called "Conquering Islamic Totalitarianism" and promised immigration quotas based on country of origin — nationalistic policies often bolstered by the Kremlin.
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Without such decisions, public schools risk becoming the very "enclaves of totalitarianism" that the Supreme Court repudiated in its 1969 decision vindicating student protests of the Vietnam War.
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But what about speech that's designed to drive a woman out of her workplace or to bully a teenager into suicide or to drive a democracy toward totalitarianism?
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I think it's a bit of a problem for people that know about real totalitarianism that some of these characters have survived for as long as they did.
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" Shirley Manson sings about a society collapsing into brutal totalitarianism: "There will be no apologies and no more security/There will be no cops, just men with guns.
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Among other things, he argued that she failed to prove that surveillance capitalism is a "soul-sucking" rebirth of totalitarianism that makes people puppets of manipulative data wizards.
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Totalitarianism, in his experience, did not endure, whereas art, nature and the teachings of the saints all were as powerful as ever — they were what composed his life.
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But I think the problem of political totalitarianism of the last century or two is the result of not overtly religious movements co-opting religion as a tool.
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And so, with the experiments of the New Deal, he put forth a true alternative -- both to the totalitarianism of Hitler and to the do-nothing-ism of Hoover.
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Taken together, in the 1940s Hayek, Popper and Schumpeter offered a muscular attack on collectivism, totalitarianism and historicism, and a restatement of the virtues of liberal democracy and markets.
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Hurtling down the first route will lead to a "zipless totalitarianism", to borrow a phrase from Sean Orlando, an American artist, that will alienate workers without much improving productivity.
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In the battle between totalitarianism and democracy, the weapon of choice had been history, and now that the battle was won, it was time to put that weapon down.
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And intelligence co-operation had been slowed by the legacy of totalitarianism, which has left many Europeans, the Germans in particular, with a deep aversion to the surveillance state.
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He draws upon myth and classical topoi and religion—Albania was the first country to legally secularize, in 1912—while focusing lovingly, melancholically, on the human experience of totalitarianism.
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Fourteen clear mylar panels hang from the ceiling, each one containing a passage, in German and in English translation, from the political philosopher's 1951 book The Origins of Totalitarianism.
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It's not Luddite to see the be-careful-what-you-wish-for lesson from Mary Shelley's era to our own, at the cusp of an age of technological totalitarianism.
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Revisiting this period and the work of NSK in particular enable us to look back and think for ourselves how to deal with the legacy of colonialism and totalitarianism.
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Western political science associated totalitarianism with several features, including state terror, total absence of civil society outside the state, a centrally planned economy and domination by a single party.
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When the people of Venezuela, Cuba and Iran are suffering, he is quick to dismiss that a tyrannical political system such as socialism or Islamic totalitarianism is to blame.
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"We know the patterns of totalitarianism — the single political party, the control of schools, press, radio, the arts, the sciences, and the church to support autocratic authority," she said.
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Fillon also seized on the attack, which was claimed by the militant group Islamic State, saying the fight against "Islamist totalitarianism" should be the priority of the next president.
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In the 20th century, Franklin D. Roosevelt would lead the country through a Great Depression, which left 25% of the workforce unemployed, and then a world war against totalitarianism.
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The central conflict of "A Better World," then, is between the Justice Lords' effective totalitarianism and the Justice League's conviction that murder and authoritarianism aren't acceptable ways to stop crime.
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Which is why she always cautioned against banal or clichéd speech; this was a sign that people had stopped thinking for themselves, and once that happens, totalitarianism isn't far behind.
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"Within the context of war on Islamic totalitarianism, as long as Europe's borders are not protected by our partners, France will re-establish lasting controls at its borders," he said.
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A country that has come to terms with its history of totalitarianism and imperialism will be a better place for its own citizens and an easier neighbor for everyone else.
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With the second-largest armed forces in NATO, Turkey has been the forward bastion of the West, first against Soviet totalitarianism and then against the chaos of the Middle East.
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When the Cold War came to a close and the Soviet Union began to collapse, neocons felt vindicated in preferring confrontation to containment, democracy to totalitarianism, and capitalism to communism.
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But when she does there's an eerie serenity that makes the terrors of the show's theocratic totalitarianism even more frightening, because it can create something so beautiful on the surface.
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No reader of "Watership Down," and few readers of the literary and political traditions on which its narrative depends, would accept that totalitarianism and decadence exhaust the available political alternatives.
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We have long sent our best and brightest across the globe, telling the victims of communism, of totalitarianism, of corruption that they too deserve to live in freedom and dignity.
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Rallies are also expected on Sunday to mark Global Anti-Totalitarianism Day, with solidarity events planned in cities across the world, including Paris, Berlin, Taipei, New York, Kiev, and London.
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Apple was positioning itself as the counterculture underdog — the rebellious woman with the hammer — against then-dominant IBM, which it brashly cast as George Orwell's paragon of totalitarianism, Big Brother.
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The Soviet Union, and left totalitarianism in general, is a culture of the written word; the Third Reich, and right authoritarianism in general, is a culture of the spoken word.
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The volumes currently crowding bookstore front tables — George Orwell's "1984," Sinclair Lewis's "It Can't Happen Here," Hannah Arendt's "The Origins of Totalitarianism" — offer time-tested prophecies and autopsies of dictatorship.
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Warren has an advantage over Lewis, West and Dahlberg in that he knew how the '30s turned out: Democratic capitalism survived, beating back the challenges of totalitarianism and of Communism.
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" Liberals looking to feed their sense of alarm have been steered toward Hannah Arendt's "The Origins of Totalitarianism," Sinclair Lewis's "It Can't Happen Here" and Philip Roth's "Plot Against America.
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Most recently, new hire Bari Weiss linked to a fake Twitter account as virtually her only evidence in a column devoted to the supposed epidemic of totalitarianism sweeping US universities.
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Hayek thought that the governments of the early 20th century, in responding to the concerns of the masses, had over-centralised economic decision-making, a road that led eventually to totalitarianism.
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This was important not only in the fight against Nazi totalitarianism or during the Cold War, when the United States alone had the power to rally a despairing world against darkness.
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At UCLA Law School last week, a squad of student "thought police" tried to ban my book, Failing to Confront Islamic Totalitarianism: From George W. Bush to Barack Obama and Beyond.
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This reading sees Bolshevism not as a strand of European socialist internationalism, but as a top-down perversion of Marxism that would lead inexorably to a "coup" and to Stalinist totalitarianism.
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For some, it was taboo to assault the new political norms of inclusion, to throw back in the faces of the generation that came before fights against totalitarianism, racism, and misogyny.
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"We are heading toward totalitarianism, a fascist state," said Asaduddin Owaisi, a Muslim lawmaker, who on Monday dramatically tore up a copy of the bill while giving a speech in Parliament.
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In the second episode, "'Olympics,' or the Imaginary Greece," the ancient state as a myth and ideal leads to the rise of totalitarianism and the Nazi ideology in the 20th century.
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Books by Hannah Arendt, such as The Origins of Totalitarianism and Crises of the Republic, examine the role that the despoiling of truth played in the rise of Nazism and Stalinism.
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At that time, it was at least imaginable that the Soviet Union might win, and America would be swallowed by "the ant heap of totalitarianism," as President Ronald Reagan memorably put it.
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He has been strident in his warnings against the threat of "Islamic totalitarianism", whereas Mr Juppé has sounded a more unifying note with his call for a "happy identity" for the French.
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And from the wreckage of world War II, we built a post-war architecture, system of alliances and institutions to underwrite freedom and oppose Soviet totalitarianism and to help poorer countries develop.
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"The EU was partly set up to stand firm against Soviet totalitarianism and I was just pointing out the contradiction that that's what we were set up to stop," he said Tuesday.
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Sure, I understand her work as a brutal "fight fire with fire" attack on the violence of masculinity in its many forms (misogyny, colonialism, totalitarianism, Trumpism, etc.) but is the work funny?
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The franchise may love creative kills and insanely creepy masks (the mark of any truly terrifying horror flick) but it's also an exploration of classism, totalitarianism, and plenty of other relevant issues.
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Atwood, author of more than 40 books of fiction, poetry and critical essays, said it was surprising to many that signs of totalitarianism were manifesting themselves in the United States of today.
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And from the wreckage of World War II, we built a postwar web, architecture, system of alliances and institutions to underwrite freedom and oppose Soviet totalitarianism and to help poorer countries develop.
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Despite quoting Arendt extensively, Masha Gessen, a Russian-American journalist, seems not to have taken her warning to heart, arguing in a provocative new book that totalitarianism has "reclaimed" Vladimir Putin's Russia.
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Just as our Nazi enemy in World War II was motivated by a totalitarian ideology, as was our Cold War foe, the Soviet Union, today we face a new totalitarianism: global jihadism.
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Fred Henry, a Calgary-based Catholic bishop, penned a borderline hysterical open letter to his "brothers and sisters in Christ" in which he asserted that "totalitarianism" was alive and well in Alberta.
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There were high hopes that this week's general election in Zimbabwe would unambiguously mark the end of this southern African nation's long, painful slide towards totalitarianism and economic implosion under Robert Mugabe.
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After Donald Trump was elected president, lots of people started buying books by Hannah Arendt: In December, her 1951 book The Origins of Totalitarianism was selling at 16 times its normal rate.
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Drawing on an astonishing array of sources, Kotkin paints a richly variegated portrait, delving into Stalin's peculiar personality even while situating him within the trajectories of Soviet history and totalitarianism more generally.
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According to popular lore, part of what made totalitarianism so dangerous was its "politicization of everything," but Hannah Arendt, who should know, insisted in a 1958 essay that the opposite was true.
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In 1945, Popper published a political treatise, "The Open Society and Its Enemies," a fierce assault on totalitarianism, in both its fascist and Marxist forms, and a ringing defense of liberal democracy.
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Interestingly, Poland and Hungary, where in 1989 the most liberal elites in the region led the transition to democracy from totalitarianism, now lead the pack of "illiberal democracies" within the European Union.
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Hannah Arendt, "The Origins of Totalitarianism" (1951)Country of origin: GermanyReasons for leaving: In 1933, Arendt, a German Jew, left her country and eventually settled in Paris, where she helped Jewish refugees.
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But most people aren't looking for a sustained and fully fleshed-out philosophical study of the concept of totalitarianism — nor, really, is that what The Future Is History is trying to achieve.
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I think most of the characters created in the 30s were the creation of totalitarianism in their native countries, so there is a relationship that I am not a big fan of.
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I think the resurgence in the last year has been around the phenomenon of totalitarianism and that sense that something like a crisis is occurring and we don't know how to address it.
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I am, however, suggesting that awful people today are a lot less likely to aim for fascism or totalitarianism because awful people benefit a lot less from those systems than they used to.
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"What is most ironic is that L'Oréal is an international brand from France, known for its history of democracy and freedom movements against totalitarianism," the parties said in a joint statement on Tuesday.
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The aftermath of World War I was a series of follies and failures: the Carthaginian peace of Versailles, the ineptitude of the League of Nations, the Great Depression and the emergence of totalitarianism.
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I liked the majority of the long Across entries, particularly I APPRECIATE THAT, TOTALITARIANISM, I COULD EAT A HORSE, PURSUE THE MATTER, SLEEPLESS NIGHTS, LAID IT ON THE LINE and TESTED THE WATERS.
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Indeed, he brings to mind George Orwell's observation that totalitarianism demands the continuous alteration of the past, and in the long run probably demands a disbelief in the very existence of objective truth.
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"Submission" is a clever fable of modern France getting taken over by an Islamist totalitarianism, pretty much the way France did get taken over by the pro-Hitler right wing in the 1940s.
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Dinesh D'Souza's "The Big Lie: Exposing the Nazi Roots of the American Left" is a jujitsu exercise that argues that only Donald Trump's G.O.P. can "denazify" a U.S.A. in thrall to liberal totalitarianism.
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Hong Kong police fired tear gas, water cannon and blue-dyed liquid on protesters taking part in a massive, unsanctioned march against totalitarianism during a violent weekend of clashes with authorities, Bloomberg reports.
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The broad strokes of the plot are familiar: the collapse of the Soviet Union's monstrous totalitarianism, the chaos and hope of the 1990s, and the descent into a new nightmare under Vladimir Putin.
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Ed is singlehanded proof of pop culture's relentless march towards a kind of totemic totalitarianism in which each and every one of us buys the exact same product, and does so incredibly willingly.
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According to Assimilate: A Critical History of Industrial Music by S. Alexander Reed, pioneers like Spahn Ranch, Nurse with Wound, and Pornotanz aimed to critique society's invisible totalitarianism by conjuring it as violent noise.
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On one hand, churchgoers (and many non-churchgoers) appreciate the fact that the country's bishops have regularly called their authoritarian rulers to account and acted as a minimal break on the slide towards totalitarianism.
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With a legacy that includes helping to abolish the communist nuclear threat and freeing millions of people from the jackboot of totalitarianism, no one in the running has a record that even comes close.
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By then, the hosts of the next party, Witches Against Fascist Totalitarianism, had arrived, and even the straight men were singing along to Daphne's lip-synched final set (Future, Natalie Imbruglia, "Con Te Partirò").
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At times — as when a soldier under the new regime rapes a bride in her wedding dress — the movie flirts with a false equivalence, suggesting that postrevolutionary life is just as cruel as totalitarianism.
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Meanwhile, embattled conservative presidential candidate, Francois Fillon said if he is elected France's new premier, he would invite the U.S. and Russia to join France in forming a global coalition to combat "Islamist totalitarianism".
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Looming in the future was Germany's own experience with totalitarianism: the emergence in the early 1930s of a predatory police state that initiated the Holocaust and a world war, more cataclysmic than the first.
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But the pressure toward totalitarianism by the Maduro government has been met by heroic resistance, recalling the Solidarity movement in Poland and the Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia but with much greater spilling of blood.
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With an estimated 8 to 15 percent of North Koreans listening to international radio, Radio Free Asia could play the powerful role played by Radio Free Europe during the Cold War in subverting totalitarianism.
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"If I get arrested, at least I can be proud that I tried to help these youngsters against totalitarianism," said the social worker, who spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of legal repercussions.
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The sky is not falling and no lights are flashing red, but Americans have nonetheless embraced a highly charged, counterproductive way of thinking about politics as a "new Cold War" between democracy and totalitarianism.
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All over the country, independent bookstores have filled their windows and displays with "1984," by George Orwell; "It Can't Happen Here," by Sinclair Lewis; and other books on politics, fascism, totalitarianism and social justice.
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In "The Origins of Totalitarianism," Hannah Arendt described how fascism invites people to "throw off the mask of hypocrisy" and adopt the worldview that there is no right and wrong, only winners and losers.
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Ms. Gessen, a Russian-American journalist who won the 2017 National Book Award for "The Future Is History," about the return of totalitarianism in post-Communist Russia, has spent her career challenging prevailing nostrums.
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François Fillon, a front-runner, backed local bans on the "burkini", a modest all-in-one swimsuit, last summer and considers the spread of the veil to be part of what he calls "Islamic totalitarianism".
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Vienna was thus the cradle of modernism and fascism, liberalism and totalitarianism: the currents that have shaped much of Western thought and politics since Vienna itself started to implode in 1916 until the present day.
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The fact that Mr Dimitriyev faced such charges is an indicator of some very dark forces at work in Russia: forces which don't want people to be aware of the horrific human consequences of totalitarianism.
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Multiple feuds between the PiS government and Brussels have soured sentiment towards Poland, which joined the EU in 2004 and was seen for years as a poster child for the transition from totalitarianism to democracy.
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It was a mythological tale of the little guy against the giant; David against Goliath; "individual freedom" against the "ant heap of totalitarianism," as Ronald Reagan put it in a 1964 speech supporting Barry Goldwater.
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Used as propaganda and often denigrated as such, it can be interpreted more subtly, its crude bombast sardonically indicting Stalinist as well as Nazi totalitarianism, its pathos expressing private emotions forbidden by the Soviet state.
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In "Origins of Totalitarianism," Hannah Arendt writes: Like the earlier mob leaders, the spokesmen for totalitarian movements possessed an unerring instinct for anything that ordinary party propaganda or public opinion did not care to touch.
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By the early 2000s, Mr. Gudkov was writing about the need to revisit the concept of totalitarianism, which Kremlinologists had long retired: He thought that Russia was beginning to show symptoms of the old disease.
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That is to say, there is a new form of totalitarianism which is posing a threat to the peace of the world, not for France or Europe alone, but for the peace of the world.
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Until now, it has been the general wisdom that the internet and globalization asymmetrically benefitted democracies, and as technology evolved, totalitarianism would be under constant threat from an ever more open and transparent digital society.
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The Republican Party that I recognize and that I'm a part of fought communism and totalitarianism, and it just marked me with a loyalty toward those values that I can't just simply let go of.
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These were moved in November 1991 to a secure room in the Latvian Parliament and transferred in 1993 for safekeeping and study to a newly established Center for the Documentation of the Consequences of Totalitarianism.
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Kurt Andersen, author of "Fantasyland" and (with Alec Baldwin) "You Can't Spell America Without Me": In college, I couldn't get through Hannah Arendt's "The Origins of Totalitarianism"; it just didn't seem applicable to modern America.
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Asked about his statement that "I alone can fix it" — a sentiment blasted by critics as a flirtation with totalitarianism — Trump said his ability to solve America's problems is a binary contrast with the Democratic nominee.
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The group is making the political suggestion that rather than being viewed as the political outsider of this election season, Trump represents a brand of totalitarianism that will aim establishment power at whatever target he directs.
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Spurred by a global plague of infertility, an extremist group called the Sons of Jacob staged a coup on the U.S. government and sent progressive American society reeling backwards to totalitarianism, organized on Old Testament principles.
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Adapted from THE FUTURE IS HISTORY: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia by Masha Gessen, to be published on October 3, 2017 by Riverhead Books, an imprint of Penguin Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House, LLC.
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Von Mises and Hayek, one of his students, saw earlier than most that by the interwar years the liberal era in Europe was being overwhelmed by the collectivism and totalitarianism of the right and the left.
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It vampire-squids enough wealth for its upper-tier members and their families to live lives of extraordinary, gilded luxury, without the unpleasant threat of being assassinated or deposed that comes with outright fascism or totalitarianism.
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The novel, first published in the UK under the title Northern Lights, and its sequels The Subtle Knife, and the Amber Spyglass are a powerful trilogy that blend theology, quantum physics, and an examination of totalitarianism.
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Image: GettyDirector Oliver Stone shook his fist at all those darned Pokémon Go players today, calling the game "a new level of invasion" and warning that it could lead us down a slippery slope to totalitarianism.
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This, the last hangover of Stalinist totalitarianism, must be the society for which Trump yearns as, remote control in hand, he wanders the corridors of the White House searching for Melania or a late-night burger.
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Season two impressively builds on those assets, fleshing out back stories in a manner that chillingly charts a society's descent into totalitarianism, and which in many ways feels even bleaker (if that's possible) than the first.
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"@Emma4Change s family fled Cuba to escape totalitarianism and live in freedom just like your family could you please respond to @SteveKingIA" It's not the first time Stoneman Douglas students have put the pressure on Rubio.
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I am not in any way advocating for a return to 20th-century state socialism, and I get a little frustrated when my opponents try to pin the book as some kind of nostalgic longing for totalitarianism.
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That's spelled out in my book "Failing to Confront Islamic Totalitarianism," but here's the gist: We need to take seriously three crucial truths that, since 9/11, have been obscured by layers of misunderstanding and evasion. 1.
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Changes to the Constitutional Tribunal led the European Commission to open an investigation into the rule of law in Poland, previously seen as a model for the transition from communist totalitarianism to democratic rule and market economy.
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By train, I was speeding toward another, still greater catastrophe spawned by the same total system —not Soviet "totalitarianism" but a pernicious handling of nature that undercuts life and prevails both in capitalist and socialist economic systems.
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The award for nonfiction went to Masha Gessen for "The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia," which chronicles the return of authoritarianism under Vladimir V. Putin through the lives of four Russians born in the 1980s.
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This documentary shows the band, Laibach — which had previously been banned in Yugoslavia for its use of imagery associated with totalitarianism — preparing to perform in Pyongyang for the country's 70th anniversary of liberation from Japanese colonial rule.
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These archives are a perfect illustration of the methods used by police in the service of a totalitarianism that I have in fact helped to denounce by explaining in many of my publications how its mechanisms work.
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I was willing to go in the vague hope of helping to give the South Vietnamese people a choice other than the military dictatorships that they lived under or the totalitarianism that the Communists wanted to impose.
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It seems relevant that it took Kärki decades of song writing to eventually shed his pseudonym alongside his metaphors, to be comfortable singing about tucking his son in while simultaneously providing an overarching critique of fascism and totalitarianism.
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Many opinion leaders and policymakers believed we had reached "the end of history," where the liberal world order, predicated on self-determination, multilateralism, and territorial integrity, had triumphed for good over totalitarianism, imperialism, and bipolar spheres of influence.
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Masha Gessen's The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia is a dark and expansive tome, elucidating the events and forces which, over the course of one generation, returned Russia to a Soviet order seemingly stronger than ever.
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The Vital Center culminates with a call to turn liberalism into "a fighting faith" with a moral grandeur of its own, a creed that could meet the challenges of totalitarianism by calming the psychological anxieties of the age.
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His 21971 exposé of totalitarianism, The Captive Mind, has often been compared to Arthur Koestler's Darkness at Noon and George Orwell's 21990, which is probably why its sales once again spiked after Trump won the election in November.
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"We remember President Bush admiringly as a veteran who fought totalitarianism, a statesman who advocated for freedom, a leader who served his country, and an unabashedly dedicated family man," Stacey Cunningham, NYSE Group President, said in a statement.
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"Intellectual, spiritual, and artistic initiative is as dangerous to totalitarianism as the gangster initiative of the mob, and both are more dangerous than mere political opposition," it reads, and here we are, face to face with that reality.
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These clear and present threats were built, on a continent's suffering — from example, drought in Somalia and throughout East Africa; totalitarianism and corruption across the continent — breeding weak, failing, and failed states that prove commodious to jihadist operations.
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Janusz Glowacki, a Polish playwright, novelist and screenwriter who mined the ferment of Communism and its collapse in his country to create darkly humorous works about totalitarianism and the émigré experience, died on Saturday while vacationing in Egypt.
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History raises serious doubts about how helpful this tyrannophobic focus on catastrophe, fake news and totalitarianism really is in dealing with the rise of the populist right, of which this bumbling hothead of a president is a symptom.
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It was a little Venetian and a little Freddy Krueger; frump punk, cut with a dash of Hannah Arendt, the German philosopher who wrestled with questions of totalitarianism and freedom and was liberally referenced in the show notes.
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If totalitarianism reduced the world, in Kundera's words, to a place of answers, a world of slogans and simplistic logic, Hrabal's work slyly resists by being impossible to sum up — for a long time it was even considered untranslatable.
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He has also explained that the reference to "Hitler's Germany" was not an apology for this horrendous regime but rather a way to show that without the right checks and balances, parliamentary regimes can also be dragged toward totalitarianism.
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Pompeo began by describing China as belligerent towards its neighbours and "embracing totalitarianism" at home but said the row could be resolved if Beijing were to accept the principles of fair and open trade and protection of intellectual property.
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The collapse of the neo-liberal hegemony, the rise of a raw but sometimes exciting populism, the growing revolt against progressive totalitarianism on campus and, increasingly, in corporations… All this will lead to a recrudescence of interesting political theory.
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Democracy is not to be valued because it asserts the fundamental equality of all citizens, encourages them to discover their "better angels," improves their capacity for communication, helps to make them virtuous, or acts as a foil against totalitarianism.
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Defending hateful speech may appear to be a crazy academic or legal position until we look at the "slippery slope" toward fascist or socialist totalitarianism created when we adopt our own special bans on the free speech of others.
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The conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union, says NSC-21960, the planning document adopted by the Truman administration in 21950 and one of the foundational texts of the early Cold War, was between freedom and totalitarianism.
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Curiously, he makes no mention of writers from the left, such as John Dos Passos and George Orwell, who overcame their biases in favor of the revolution and by the mid-1940s were decrying the excesses of Soviet totalitarianism.
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There was a clear drift toward totalitarianism that Mr. Chávez had foreshadowed in his first visit to Cuba, when he had expressed his wish to be "el todo" — "the embodiment of everything" — as Fidel Castro had become in Cuba.
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In Rome, it was Nero, but in the modern world it is China's totalitarianism, North Korea's evil leader worship, and in ISIS-governed territory it is those who see it as their duty to Allah to exterminate the infidel.
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The writer Jorge Mañach has already lamented, decades ago, that Cuban fondness for joking, for making fun of everything... that, nevertheless, resulted in the darkest hours of despair before the paternal totalitarianism of the revolution calcified into static dogma.
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Given the efforts to curtail organizations like Planned Parenthood, it's hardly surprising that the themes of Atwood's novel would be cast in political hues, beginning with the notion that the population ignored signs of creeping totalitarianism until it became too late.
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As he lived through periods of war, totalitarianism, and exile, he became a political thinker who didn't like politics, a memoirist who distrusted confessional literature, a poet of witness who believed that the task of poetry surpassed being a witness.
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Stories of the Second World War console us with memories of the days before Vietnam, Cambodia, and Iraq, when the United States was the world's good-hearted superpower, riding to the rescue of a Europe paralyzed by totalitarianism and appeasement.
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Yet in these two new works of biography he turns out to be not a severe rationalist, overseeing a totalitarianism of thought, but an inspired and lovable amateur, with an opinion on every subject and an appetite for every occasion.
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"The Origins of Totalitarianism," her 1951 tour de force, represents her most sustained attempt to understand German fascism and Soviet Communism not as metaphysical catastrophes but as political developments, as aspects of modernity rather than as horrific exceptions to its progress.
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The second half of the twentieth century, of course, also produced liberal-minded dystopias, chiefly concerned with issuing warnings about pollution and climate change, nuclear weapons and corporate monopolies, technological totalitarianism and the fragility of rights secured from the state.
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During the Havana biennial in 2015, Ms. Bruguera held a live reading of Hannah Arendt's 1951 book, "The Origins of Totalitarianism," in her apartment in central Havana — a performance drowned out by the constant sound of jackhammers digging outside her window.
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And they take this risk at a time when neither Chinese Communism nor Western liberalism seem exactly like confident, resilient models for the human future — the former sliding back toward totalitarianism, the latter anxious and decadent and beset by populist revolts.
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But an injectable subdermal sensor that's paid for by the U.S. military (DARPA is the research arm of the Department of Defense) sounds a bit too dystopian for our current moment of mass surveillance and rising totalitarianism around the globe.
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It also presents some of the finest examples of Grossman's prose, an argument to read him not only as a fervent critic of totalitarianism, but as a deeply compassionate writer with an extraordinary gift for portraying psychological complexity and sensory detail.
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" Given both the scale and the totalitarianism of that blueprint — and the inconvenient fact that the opposite of political unity is happening all the time — even Scranton admits that he's "pretty sure we're going to keep fumbling along toward our doom.
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Vindman, not unlike Marie Yovanovitch -- who was ousted by Trump from her envoy post in Ukraine -- has described his profound gratitude, admiration and commitment to advancing the ideals of the country that gave refuge to his family as they fled totalitarianism.
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" She suggests some additional reading: Hannah Arendt's "The Origins of Totalitarianism" for its examination of "the power that centralized storytelling can exert over anxious populations suffering from the dislocations of history, by offering scapegoats, easy fixes and simple cohesive narratives.
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When it became clear that under Chávez the country was drifting toward totalitarianism, I joined the student movement, which played a crucial role in delivering him a decisive loss on a referendum in 2007 that would have granted him sweeping powers.
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She believed that certain things had to be in place for totalitarianism to take shape — racism, capitalist expansion for the sake of expansion (what we might call globalization today), the decline of the traditional concept of the nation-state, and anti-Semitism.
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In the mid-1980s he entered into the underground music scene, anticipating what has been dubbed the "Velvet Revolution" — the demise of what former Czech President Vaclav Havel had called "post-totalitarianism" (in his 1978 samizdat essay "The Power of the Powerless").
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Although certain priests, like Germany's Dietrich Bonhöffer, opposed fascism with supreme courage, today's clergy are still somewhat haunted by the memory of right-wing predecessors (for example, under the collaborationist Vichy regime in France) who gave comfort to, or failed to oppose, totalitarianism.
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The problem comes when groups lean too far in one direction—when a nation facing security threats starts turning toward totalitarianism and infringes on individual rights, for example, or a loose nation veers toward lawlessness and suffers an uptick in violent crime.
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You might be able to rationalize why a totalitarian (or any kind of) government would outlaw drugs, but a mark of totalitarianism is the passage of arbitrary laws to keep citizens in line, and a total lack of due process for the accused.
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The bigger worry for the government is how to protect the agency's intelligence capabilities from judges in Luxembourg and Strasbourg, whose view of espionage is rooted not in the British tradition of royal prerogative and empire, but in continental memories of totalitarianism.
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Fritz Stern, a German-born historian and longtime professor at Columbia University whose searching studies of Germany's political culture in the 19803th and 20th centuries provided a new understanding of the drift toward totalitarianism, died on Wednesday at his home in Manhattan.
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Instead of focusing on the poor treatment of scientific workers under totalitarianism, he was more interested in exploring restrictions on academic freedom in the West, such as racial exclusion at the University of Alabama and apartheid at the University of Cape Town.
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Al Smith, who in 1928 was the governor of New York and the Democratic presidential nominee, later turned on Franklin D. Roosevelt during the New Deal and warned, much as Mr. Romney did on Thursday, that Roosevelt's liberal policies would lead toward totalitarianism.
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He began by describing China as belligerent toward its neighbors and "embracing totalitarianism" at home, but went on to say that Washington's issues with Beijing could be resolved if China accepted the principles of fair and open trade and protection of intellectual property.
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By the time von Braun's rocket team propelled Apollo 11 to the moon in 1969, the team members moved to Huntsville and completed their transformation from death-dealing agents of fascist totalitarianism to gleaming American Cold Warriors and redeemers of the Free World.
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Unlike fascism or totalitarianism, political meritocracy is compatible with most democratic values and practices So the task in China is to bolster the meritocratic elements in the country's political system while selectively adopting democratic ideas and practices short of electoral democracy at the top.
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It's quite likely that current CEO Sundar Pichai sees China differently than Google co-founder Sergey Brin who grew up in the former Soviet Union and had said in 2010 that China bore the "same earmarks of totalitarianism," which he found to be troubling.
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As Paul employs them, the words are a reference to Friedrich Hayek, who argued in his 1944 book "The Road to Serfdom" that placing increased power in the hands of a central government would pave the way for a decline into tyranny and totalitarianism.
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It depicts the Magisterium, the church hierarchy that wields theocratic power across Europe, with all the aesthetic trappings of mid-century totalitarianism: the monumental brutalist architecture, the soldiers in crisp black uniforms, a Greek cross symbol twisted ever so slightly to echo the Nazi flag.
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In a 21986–20073 opinion, the Court sided with the students, affirming that students do not "shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech or expression at the schoolhouse gate," and that public schools, though not democracies, "may not be enclaves of totalitarianism," either.
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Vindman himself brought up his immigrant background in his opening testimony to highlight his loyalty to the United States, explaining his decision to join the military as a way of giving back to a country that took him in after he fled Soviet totalitarianism.
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PHNOM PENH, Cambodia — Many of the foot soldiers for the Khmer Rouge remain in Cambodia's remote reaches, each with a chronicle of the horror-soaked years in which Pol Pot and his Communist disciples turned the country into a deadly laboratory for agrarian totalitarianism.
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The bad news was that, in the name of liberation, Stalin's legions enslaved much of Nazi-occupied Eastern and Central Europe for the next four decades, condemning the people of those countries to the double curse of suffering both kinds of 20th-century totalitarianism.
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But this enjoyable dual biography by Ricks, a Pulitzer Prize winner and military history columnist for the New York Times Book Review, draws out the common causes of these 20th century giants: two independent thinkers and opponents of totalitarianism whose influence remains pervasive today.
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There is ample documentation that their position was based on the belief that totalitarianism in general and fascism in particular were inevitable, as Anne Morrow Lindbergh argued in her 1940 book "The Wave of the Future," and that resistance was both costly and useless.
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The publisher's note to the Social Contract edition explains how, unlike in a work of nonfiction, "storytellers can advance notions prohibited to others," predicting that the book could "become the '1984' of the twenty-first century," referencing the famous George Orwell novel about totalitarianism.
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Some analysts predicted that the principal electoral beneficiary could be the embattled mainstream center-right candidate François Fillon, who produced a book last fall called "Defeating Islamic Totalitarianism," and who also uses harsh rhetoric to depict the antiterrorism fight as a war of civilizations.
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China will undoubtedly seek to extract maximum advantage from its participation in the global economy but the logic of totalitarianism under an absolute dictator and supposedly revivified party enforcing ideological and economic control betokens return to the past of Maoism and its Stalinist Soviet cognate.
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But I do know one thing: The history of this past century teaches us that when we place our bets on nostalgia — when we dedicate ourselves to the search for some lost native land, for something pure — we only pave the way for totalitarianism.
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Maya Turovskaya, a Russian film and theater critic, once called "the Susan Sontag of Soviet aesthetic thought," who also co-wrote a popular documentary in the 1960s that drew parallels between Stalin-era totalitarianism and Nazism, died on March 4 at her home in Munich.
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But the question of whether on-campus political correctness is the bleeding edge of an incipient left-wing totalitarianism, as Jonathan Chait wrote at New York magazine a few years ago and as many center- and center-right thinkers appear to believe, is pretty important.
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" It also retweeted posts from people like Peter Imanuelsen, a vlogger who has previously engaged in Holocaust denial and campaigned for anti-refugee groups in Europe, and UKIP politician and far-right culture warrior David Kurten, who called the companies distancing themselves from Gab "totalitarianism in action.
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Devout statesmen such as Robert Schuman of France, Italy's Alcide De Gasperi and Konrad Adenauer of Germany (pictured, left to right) laid the groundwork for a new continental order in which national divisions would be overcome and Western Europe, at least, would stand firm against totalitarianism.
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But China for example, one of the hearings we had in the intel committee was how they are exporting their digital form of totalitarianism, the euphemistic, the Orwellian "safe cities" model where they have ubiquitous CCTV cameras tied into big data and facial recognition, social media scores.
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Likewise, the continuation of Syria's civil war, Putin's re-election, and the intensifying Russo-Chinese drift to genuine totalitarianism (take China's efforts to install surveillance of the entire country) will drive them, apart from economic issues like sanctions and trade wars, toward even more anti-American stances.
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He traced latter-day totalitarianism to the Christian heresy of Gnosticism, which broadly maintained that the world as it exists is corrupt, that a special form of knowledge could provide an intimate connection to God and that the earth must finally be purified in a violent apocalypse.
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"Many of the new laws are aiming to take us back to totalitarianism," she explains, referring to everything from 2013's controversial anti–gay "propaganda" legislation to the more recent "Big Brother law," a harsh anti-terrorism measure whose nickname was coined by Edward Snowden himself.
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Although the revelations of the crimes of Stalinist totalitarianism diminished the luster of the Russian Revolution in the 400s, the surprising victory of the Communists in Cuba revived the revolutionary spirit in Latin America, inspiring guerrilla movements that alarmed military regimes allied to the United States.
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The basic takeaway here is that, while we typically talk about North Korea as a holdover of Soviet-style hard-line communist totalitarianism, in fact, the country is best understood as a holdover of 1930s-style Japanese fascism, leftover from Japan's early colonization of the peninsula.
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I could be wrong about this, but somewhere inside of this season, The Handmaid's Tale has begun to craft an argument that the only way to combat the rise of totalitarianism is to fight back with blood and fire (and to airlift 52 children to Canada).
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Set in an underground club 250 years from now, it slipped a political tale about environmental disaster, totalitarianism and dispossession into a concert setting, letting the clichés of pop lyrics (lost love, ticking hearts) do double duty as clues to the realities of a dystopian future.
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Yet the brothers' lobbying against regulation, unions and entitlements—in almost any circumstance, a position so extreme that William F. Buckley derided it as "anarcho-totalitarianism"—helped push the Republican Party much further to the right than most of its supporters knew or wanted to go.
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He moved here from the Soviet Union at four years old, described himself as committed to serving the country that saved his family from totalitarianism, and at one point directly reassured his father, who brought him to the US, that challenging the country's leadership was safe.
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Albanian novelist and person who maybe deserves the Nobel the most in this group Ismail Kadare faces an additional barrier in that he often writes about the evils of 20th century communism and totalitarianism, a fixation that overlaps significantly with recent winners Alexievich and Modiano and Herta Mueller.
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The term blends, on the one hand, serious analysis and critique of the ideas of Islamic totalitarianism, the cause animating the jihadists, which is vitally important (and the purpose of my book); and, on the other hand, racist and tribalist bigotry against people who espouse the religion of Islam.
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Thus: at a panel about freedom of speech and growing threats to it – not least from Islamists – UCLA students and school administrators tried to ban a book that highlights the importance of free speech, the persistent failure to confront Islamic totalitarianism, and that movement's global assaults on free speech.
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There's a great line from the philosopher Hannah Arendt, I think in her book about totalitarianism, where she says that fascists are never content to merely lie; they must transform their lie into a new reality, and they must persuade people to believe in the unreality they've created.
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That might sound like a cliché but it&aposs something that literally makes it hard for me to sleep at night, and it gets me out of bed early in the morning, since totalitarianism broke upon the world in Italy, in Germany and later in the Soviet Union.
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Crime is simply not as pervasive as people think; weapons are harder to get and properly use in response to crime than people think, and the government is neither nearing tyranny and totalitarianism (although I sometimes think it would be if this administration had its druthers) nor plotting confiscations.
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City officials quickly apologized, but not before stirring nationwide ire over the use of a state-of-the-art digital tool to stamp out a harmless and relatively common practice — an unusual note of resistance in a country where the instruments of digital totalitarianism have spread largely unchecked.
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The attack on Pearl Harbor, an occasion of ceremonial remembrance commemorated once more last week, propelled the United States into the global contest against Japanese imperialism and European totalitarianism; within four years a once-isolationist America would achieve a superpower status from which it has yet to fall.
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More: Paris gunman's criminal past in focus as police hunt for a second suspect Battle zone scenes on the streets of Paris 'It's us or them,' France's Fillon says of fight against 'Islamist totalitarianism' Elon Musk's newest company, Neuralink, is working to connect the human brain with a machine-interface.
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Three recent financing deals connect the dots between the capital markets and the strengthening of totalitarianism in Venezuela: This commitment to debt service at any cost is using up scarce resources that could otherwise be used to finance critical imports or to stabilize the downward spiral in growth, incomes, and security.
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China has one-fifth of the planet's population; the world's second largest economy; a small but significant nuclear arsenal for deterrence; and an increasingly repressive government which combines elements of market economics with single-party totalitarianism, incredibly invasive surveillance, mass internment camps; and a newly minted "president for life," Xi Jinping.
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When the Democratic Party wins some elections, this opposition usually takes the form of dark warnings that "identity politics" constitutes a form of creeping totalitarianism, whereas when the Democratic Party loses an election, it takes the form of a dark warning that identity-based appeals are the cause of the loss.
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" Published in Britain last week, the book, whose title refers to the signature propaganda catchphrase of Xi Jinping, the Chinese president, was described by the publisher as a "biting satire of totalitarianism that reveals what happens to a nation when it is blinded by materialism and governed by violence and lies.
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The difficulties of white suburban motherhood are reduced to DVR malfunctions and bake sale restrictions, and are then made out to be falsely equivalent with the "real world problems" of policing, fascism, terrorism, transphobic hate crimes, and totalitarianism (problems very foreign to their small suburban world), to intended comedic effect.
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And it was in Las Ramblas of Barcelona, standing guard on a rooftop as a volunteer during the Spanish Civil War, that the British writer George Orwell was struck by a realization that would ultimately lead him to write "1984," his enduring denunciation of totalitarianism and the politics of fear.
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The award for nonfiction went to Russian journalist Masha Gessen for her The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia, and the award for young people's literature went to Robin Benway for her book Far from the Tree, about three siblings separated at birth who find each other as teens.
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Though the parallels between Nazi rule and America's current government are more immediately disturbing, the more modern totalitarianism of the GDR fostered the same kind of insidious fear and distrust that leads us to put tape over our web cameras—or try to identify Trump supporters hiding in plain sight on the subway.
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This was one of his most admirable qualities, but it ought also to be stressed that on the single most important political issue of our era, Glazer displayed a remarkable consistency throughout his life: He was an opponent of totalitarianism and authoritarianism whether it took form on the right or on the left.
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But he (or she) might learn something from an earlier age's custodians of diverse, fragmented societies — from monarchies like that of the Austrian Hapsburgs, in particular, that worked to contain and balance religious and ethnic divisions, to prevent disintegration and forestall totalitarianism, and might have succeeded longer absent the folly of 1914.
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" In most accounts of the period, including Mark Greif's recent book "The Age of the Crisis of Man" (2015), the dominant refugee is Hannah Arendt, whose "Origins of Totalitarianism" (1951) depicted the rise of Hitlerism and Stalinism as twin modernities, engines of mass terror built to effect "the transformation of human nature itself.
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This is not to say that it was the dominant topic across the whole spectrum of art, though it might have been in literature, where science fiction replaced reality — the magic spell of totalitarianism, swallowing the present whole but magically presenting a remote past and a distant future, both unreachable from here and now.
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The resurgence of fascism has been much in the news recently as governments the world over slide ever rightward, but in Hungary—whose own far-right president faces reelection in 2018—parliamentarians think they have struck upon a solution that will eradicate the scourge of nationalist totalitarianism once and for all: changing the labels on Heineken beer.
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Todd VanDerWerff: One of the narratives that have been circling around The Handmaid's Tale since roughly the middle of its first season is whether expanding Margaret Atwood's book into a full television series inevitably turns her prescient warning about how easy it is to slide into totalitarianism and oppression into a luxuriation in her dark vision.
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The first is Arendt's contention that the lethally dehumanizing logic of totalitarianism originated partly in the massive displacement of populations after World War I. The refugees created by that conflict were not only stateless but "rightsless," regarded by the nations of Europe not as citizens in need of protection but as a problem to be solved.
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That combination — of the lurking, horrific possibility of totalitarianism and human evil, and the unforgiving brutality and necessity of the natural world — would go on to inform her work for the rest of her career, perhaps most pointedly in the MaddAddam trilogy, in which human brutality nearly destroys the world and nature rushes in to fill the void.
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RON BONN, SAN DIEGO To the Editor: Although I am a severe critic of President Trump, it remains unclear to me why Mr. Trump is wrong about wanting better relations with Russia — which liberal Democrats have traditionally supported in past decades, despite the Soviet gulags, political psychiatric "hospitals," occupation of Eastern European satellite states, totalitarianism and virulent mischief abroad.
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When she speaks of "dark times" and warns of the "exhortations, moral and otherwise, that under the pretext of upholding old truths degrade all truth in meaningless triviality" we can hear not only a critique of the horrors of 20th-century totalitarianism, but also a warning about forces pervading the politics of the United States and Europe today.
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When Cheryl and I were drawn back to southern Africa a few years later for a job, we were in Windhoek, Namibia, in February of 1990, at the very moment that much of the world enslaved by totalitarianism was throwing off its shackles, and the "free world" that the United States had lead since World War II was growing exponentially.
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Basing its mandate on the European Union's 2009 resolution on European conscience and totalitarianism, which is posted on the committee's website, the lengthily named Committee for Disclosing the Documents and Announcing the Affiliation of Bulgarian Citizens to the State Security and Intelligence Services of the Bulgarian National Army describes itself as charged with "pulling back the curtain" on the country's past.
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" In her 1951 book "Origins of Totalitarianism," Hannah Arendt noted that "the German bourgeoisie," which "staked everything on the Hitler movement and aspired to rule with the help of the mob," in the end only "won a Pyrrhic victory" as "the mob proved quite capable of taking care of politics by itself and liquidated the bourgeoisie along with all other classes and institutions.
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But his core political convictions remained remarkably consistent: opposition (in the name of individualism and free enterprise) to the size and growth of the federal government; insistence on defending traditional Judeo-Christian morality against all forms of "moral equivalency"; and a belief that American foreign policy should be oriented toward the defense of freedom against the threat of totalitarianism, especially Soviet Communism.
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Watching the documentary about Saba, "A Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness," I kept thinking that just as in the 19th century the central moral challenge for the world was slavery, and in the 20th century it was totalitarianism, in this century the foremost moral issue is the abuse and oppression that is the lot of so many women and girls around the world.
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Orwell's "1984" was at once a savage satire of the Soviet Union under Stalin — from its rewriting of history to its cult of personality to its use of torture and propaganda — and a shrewd anatomy of totalitarianism that foretold the rise of the surveillance state and the fire hose of falsehood spewed forth daily by Putin's Kremlin and Trump's White House in attempts to redefine reality.
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Although Judge Gorton delve into the plaintiffs' claims that the visa-halt discriminated based on religion (he simply found that they failed to point to an injury and therefore lacked legal standing), it must be pointed out that the INA does contain an explicit religion-test for exclusion in the form of the Lautenberg Program as well as similar ideological tests, including for anarchism, totalitarianism, communism, and terrorism.
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It is far from irrelevant to note that in the context of the eternal quest by government to expand its power at the expense of individual freedom, the presumption of market rationality is closely analogous to the presumption of innocence for those accused of crimes, not because we believe it to be true in any given case, but because the opposite presumption leads toward a system of totalitarianism.
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His composer is so given to bellyaching and navel-gazing, however, that the novel gains power and resonance when it steps outside its hero's head, and instead uses Shostakovich's story to probe such favorite themes as the relativity of history and the subjectivity of experience (the same themes that animated earlier Barnes novels like "The Porcupine" and "A History of the World in 10½ Chapters"), and to chronicle the absurdities that artists suffer under totalitarianism.
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Her letter reads, in part: I cannot sit idly by the cancellation of Villela's and Vidokle's SITAC and not be concerned about the obliteration of such a relevant space for discussion, especially because we are living in times in which totalitarianism and obscurantism start to appear in the horizon in the West, terrorism and surveillance are the norm, and critical and dissident voices are being systematically silenced and spied on in our country.
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Background Reading: Ross on China's information-age totalitarianism, public-sector unions and Michael Brendan Dougherty's "My Father Left Me Ireland" Michelle on last year's teacher strikes in West Virginia and Arizona David on Trump's clueless China hawkishness, the Uber and Lyft driver strikes and the government shutdown's lesson for the anti-Trump resistance I've been an Op-Ed columnist since 2009, and I write about politics, religion, pop culture, sociology and the places where they all intersect.
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Although the book was published over three decades ago, the patriarchal hell of Gilead takes the strands of terrifying threats in our present-day — the curtailing of abortion rights, the institutionalization of misogyny, the rape culture of victim-blaming, the fear and paranoia a far-out leader can sow amidst chaos, the suspension of our country's values in desperate times — and pulls them all the way through to their unnatural conclusion, creating a horrific shroud of sexism and totalitarianism that we can't help but recognize patterns in.
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