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  • Riding the Underground with Winston Churchill

    Riding the Underground with Winston Churchill4

    Five minutes and 47 seconds. That’s the length of the scene when Prime Minister Winston Churchill avails himself of the Underground, also called the Tube, in the film Darkest Hour (2017), a brief and fictitious cinematic interlude, yes, but one bulging with messages for us today. On boarding the carriage, as the English call it,

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  • Remembering One of Stalin’s Forgotten Killing Sprees

    Remembering One of Stalin’s Forgotten Killing Sprees3

    Power kills. Absolute power kills too many to count. Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin spoke with personal authority on the subject when he famously said, “A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic.” To write about any one or more massacres for which Stalin was responsible, one must first answer the question, “Which

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  • Why Karl Marx Supported Gun Rights

    Why Karl Marx Supported Gun Rights1

    For just $10.77, people can go on Amazon and buy wall art of Ronald Reagan apparently defending the Second Amendment. “Under no pretext should arms and ammunition be surrendered,” the text reads next to a picture of Reagan; “any attempts to disarm the people must be stopped, by force if necessary.” There are a few problems

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