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Conscience in Revolt: Sophie Scholl on Suffering, Strength, and the Deepest Wellspring of Courage Holocaust

Conscience in Revolt: Sophie Scholl on Suffering, Strength, and the Deepest Wellspring of Courage

“To be a human being among people and to remain one forever, no matter in what circumstances, not to grow despondent and not to lose heart — that’s what life is all about, that’s its task,” the young Fyodor Dostoyevsky wrote in an existential exhale of a letter to his…
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April 29, 2020
Tufts’ President Denounces Award Given To Students For Justice In Palestine Holocaust

Tufts’ President Denounces Award Given To Students For Justice In Palestine

Students for Justice in Palestine have received awards from both Tufts and New York University. Both ... awards have been denounced by the school administrations. (Photo by Albin Lohr-Jones/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images) LightRocket via Getty Images The President, Provost, and various Deans of Tufts University have denounced the giving…
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April 27, 2020
Is Historical Knowledge Philosophically Interesting? Holocaust

Is Historical Knowledge Philosophically Interesting?

By MAKSYMILIAN DEL MAR Review of The Philosophical Structure of Historical Explanation, by Paul Roth Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 2020 For those of us invested in defending the epistemic value of history, especially when facing arguments made by skeptical analytical philosophers, Paul Roth’s work will already be well-known. So far, it has arrived in gleaming, landmark…
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April 24, 2020
The Holocaust Was an Attempt to Erase Millions of People. Today, the World Must Honor the Evidence That They Existed Holocaust

The Holocaust Was an Attempt to Erase Millions of People. Today, the World Must Honor the Evidence That They Existed

In a scene in Claude Lanzmann’s groundbreaking documentary Shoah, historian Raul Hilberg, a giant in the world of Holocaust research, sits in his study in a wintry Vermont. He has a piece of paper in his hand: a typical traffic order, a Fahrplananordnung, with number 587, he explains, regarding a…
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April 21, 2020
GOP lawmaker compares stay-at-home orders to Nazi concentration camps Holocaust

GOP lawmaker compares stay-at-home orders to Nazi concentration camps

Rep. Heather Scott (R-Idaho) is facing criticism after comparing Idaho’s fight against the coronavirus to the policies of Nazi Germany. During an interview last Thursday on a podcast known as the “Jess Fields Show,” Scott attacked the state’s Republican Governor Brad Little who labeled certain people as nonessential workers. “I…
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April 21, 2020