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Ryan Rodrick Beiler ActiveStills Israel lobby groups are pushing to codify into law worldwide a controversial definition of anti-Semitism with the intent of suppressing criticism of Israel. The definition has been rightly criticized for conflating criticism of a state and its political ideology with anti-Jewish bigotry. What has received less scrutiny is how it would also brand as anti-Semitic critiques of Zionism and Israeli policy expressed by Jews, including Israelis, for decades. This defin...

Could you please share which/whose textbooks you examined? John J. Kulczycki - 5/21/2004 The discussion of the role of the Left or of the Right is irrelevant to the main point: the ignorance of the Katyn Forest Massacre. In a recent survey of the way Eastern Europe is dealt with in six representative Western Civilization textbooks, I found that only two mention Katyn, one giving 1941 as the date of the massacre, that is, the date that the Soviets cite...

Legacies of Cold War Liberalism To promote democratic and egalitarian ideals today, we need to break with the anxieties that drove U.S. politics during the Cold War. President-elect John F. Kennedy with Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. on January 9, 1960 (Bettmann via Getty Images) If war is a force that gives us meaning, as Chris Hedges famously wrote, what purpose remains when the ultimate battle has been won? This question plagued many American intellectuals af...

KGB Operations in North America | History of the Soviet Secret Service The KGB (Russian: Комите́т госуда́рственной безопа́сности / КГБ; translated in English as Committee for State Security), was the main security agency for the Soviet Union from 1954 until its break-up in 1991. Formed in 1954, as a direct successor of such preceding agencies as the Cheka, NKGB, and MGB, the KGB was attached to the Council of Ministers. It was the chief government agency ...

By Bill Donohue | January 7, 2021 | 3:11pm EST Damage is seen inside the U.S. Capitol building early on Jan. 7, 2021 in Washington, D.C. after supporters of President Donald Trump breeched security and entered the building during a session of Congress. (Photo credit: OLIVIER DOULIERY/AFP via Getty Images) As philosopher Sidney Hook cogently said, there can be no right to a revolution in a democracy. That is because the faith of everyone who believes in democr...

Self and Others: Max Stirner and Revolutionary Anarchism by Wayne Price Review of Jacob Blumenfeld. All Things Are Nothing to Me: The Unique Philosophy of Max Stirner. The individualist- egoism of Max Stirner, its strengths and weaknesses, in comparison with the views of Bakunin, Landauer, and Karl Marx. Max Stirner was the pen name of Johann Kasper Schmidt (1806-56). He was part of a milieu of young philosophers who sought to develop further the philosophy of the great German thinker Georg W....