History of a Calamity

America from Victory in World War 2 to Donald Trump and Cold Civil War
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"Everyone, once they pass the age of seventy, becomes a historian." A decent respect for the opinion of mankind demands an explanation for writing…
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Even in the era when newspapers were fat with advertising and therefore dense with real news there were some days there was no space to fit it all in…
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Is there a danger in victory? When you are discussing history, of course, there is. Victors are prone to complacency, which allows the vanquished—short…
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I am a Jew, born five years after the Holocaust ended. Growing up I encountered moderate anti-Semitism—name-calling, schoolyard fights, occasional…
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Part Two of History of a Calamity: October 1973
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Revolution is a romantic word and a bloody practice. There has not been a significant one among the major nations of the West since the Bolshevik…
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History of a Calamity

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