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Subject: The Review: The Nightmare of History "Is this a plea for historians to be granted some of the moral authority of the traumatized, of the survivor?" That's Michael Roth, a historian and president of Wesleyan University, commenting on "Can Historians Be Traumatized by History?," an article recently published in The New Republic. Based on that headline, I was initially sympathetic to Roth's skepticism. But the article, by James Robins, moved me. It begins with the story of Iris Chang, the historian whose book The Rape of Nanking (1997) Robins credits with "resurrecting for a new gene...

Book calls PM an ‘inveterate liar’ Boris Johnson is “an unrepentant and inveterate liar” who feels he is not subject to the same rules as others, according to a former French ambassador to the UK’s new book. In Goodbye Britannia, Sylvie Bermann writes that Johnson uses “lies to embellish reality, as a game and as instrument of power”. The former ambassador to the UK from 2014 to 2017 also predicts that Johnson will seek to use Covid to conceal the true economic cost of Brexit on the UK economy. 5 Clegg defends Facebook Nick Clegg has said the Australian government and press dro...

Last Franco statue on Spanish soil removed The last statue of General Francisco Franco on Spanish soil has been removed, after the tiny enclave of Melilla voted to take down its monument to the fascist dictator. Workers destroyed the brink plinth and carried away the statue, which had stood at the gates of the city on the north-west coast of Africa. © Getty Images The far-right Vox party had argued against removing the statue Only the far-right Vox party in Melilla had voted against its removal. General Franco ruled Spain from 1939 until his death in 1975. More than 30,000 people were kil...

Last statue of dictator Francisco Franco removed from Spanish soil CNN 2/25/2021 © Jesus Blasco de Avellaneda/Reuters The statue was installed in 1978. The last public statue of Spain's former dictator, Francisco Franco, was removed from Spanish soil on Tuesday. Workers took away the statue, which stood on a street in Melilla, a Spanish enclave in Morocco, after the local assembly approved its removal Monday, the local Socialist party (PSOE), which is part of the ruling coalition in the regional government, said on Twitter. The removal was timed to coincide with the 40th anniversary of a...

<p>The statue was the last standing after a 2007 law recognized the suffering caused by Francoism and began a process of removing memorials to the dictator.&nbsp;</p>