Germany has often been lauded for its memory culture and its reckoning with its fascist,...
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History repeats itself, the first time as hope, the second time as dread. In a preface to the 2002 reissue of her classic work on the fear of bodily pollution, first published in 1966, the anthropologist Mary Douglas wrote: When I was writing Purity and Danger I had no idea that soon the fear of […]
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An anthem is more than a song. An anthem is a representation of a people...
In his indictment of Donald Trump for conspiring to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election, the special counsel Jack Smith makes a glancing reference to the Gettysburg Address. It is not, however, the one delivered by Abraham Lincoln on the Pennsylvania battlefield in 1863. Smith cites, rather, a public event in the ballroom […]
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The world’s conspiracy nutbags are abuzz with excitement after US space agency NASA announced it would be faking its first moon landing since the early 1970s. “Back when we first faked the moon landing we did it with a computing... Read More ›
In January the far-right website Townhall began publishing a four-part series on a so-called “Suburban...
By Patrick Lawrence / Original to ScheerPost Somewhere between the first and second times I heard someone say “weaponize,” this term and its derivatives—“weaponizing,” “weaponization,” and so on—began to repel me. It was the crudity of it, or the way it served as an accusatory dismissal, like “conspiracy theory.” Assert that someone has weaponized a […]
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Around 3 a.m. on October 28, David DePape attacked Paul Pelosi, Speaker of the House...