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Paranoia and the Perils of Misreading

In the summer of 2021, genocide scholar Dirk Moses published an article in the Swiss online journal Geschichte der Gegenwart (History of the Present) titled, “The German Catechism.” He argued that Germany’s…

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Free Speech – What’s not to like?

This article argues that the attack on ‘cancel culture’ is the creation of a culture war where none exists. The number of cancelled events at universities is very small and…

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Anti-Vaxxers’ Trivialization Of The Holocaust Is Antisemitic

In June of this year, a British nurse, Kate Shemirani, was struck off for spreading misinformation about the covid-19 pandemic. The fact that a nurse was arguing that the illness was…

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In Germany, Coming To Terms With Its Past Is An Ongoing Struggle

In 2009, Michael Rothberg, now professor of Holocaust Studies at UCLA, published Multidirectional Memory, one of the most influential books in memory studies of the last decade. In it, he…

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Prosecuting Historians – Last Refuge of the Illiberals?

In his latest CARR Insight blog, Senior Fellow, Professor Dan Stone, examines a troubling episode of two historians being prosecuted for a short passage in their latest book and its…

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Britain’s Refugee Policy Is a Fantasy of Fear

In December 1938, French Foreign Minister Georges Bonnet told German Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop of a French plan to deport 10,000 Jews to Madagascar, a French colony. After the…

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Black people are tired of explaining racism, but why are white people still not speaking out?

For white people to stay silent and do nothing is to remain complicit in the racist structures that one claims to want to change. Many black writers are no longer…

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COVID-19 Could Be A Harbinger Of Authoritarianism

Radical right governments are exploiting COVID-19 as an excuse to expand their power. There are few worse culprits than Hungary’s Viktor Orbán. In his televised 9 April Easter message, the…

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The legacy of Wannsee on today’s radical right

Contemporary ideas of the ‘great replacement’ of the white population echo those that led to the Holocaust. 20 January 2020 was the 78th anniversary of the so-called Wannsee Conference. This…

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Why We Should Take Dresden, Germany’s “Nazi State Of Emergency” Seriously

The recent surge of the radical right in Europe raises questions about whether the idea of a ‘Nazi state of emergency’ requires wider consideration. In October, the radical right Alternative…

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