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Yet another tactic was creating, then deliberately exacerbating and exploiting, the refugee crisis.
Alan Dershowitz • The Case for Israel
When democratic demand did express itself from below, it came in the form of a personalistic, charismatic, and vindictive regime: a champion of the people who could punish and humble the arrogant old ruling classes.
John Ganz • When the Clock Broke
we did want to reach a general conclusion about what form human societies originally took, based on statistical frequencies of health indicators from ancient burials, we would have to reach the exact opposite conclusion to Hobbes (and Pinker): in origin, it might be claimed, our species is a nurturing and care-giving species, and there was simply
... See moreDavid Graeber • The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
Harbin’s mayor welcomed participants by citing esteemed Jews such as J. P. Morgan and John D. Rockefeller (neither of whom was Jewish). He then announced that “the world’s money is in the pockets of the Americans, and the Americans’ money is in the pockets of the Jews. This is the highest acclaim and praise to Jewish wisdom.”
Dara Horn • People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present
Plato said those who tell the stories rule society and he was right.
W. Brian Arthur • Complexity Economics: Proceedings of the Santa Fe Institute's 2019 Fall Symposium
Sabaya negotiated directly with Benjie, a Filipino military officer. They talked in Tagalog. We reviewed transcripts translated to English and used them to advise Benjie. I rotated in and out of Manila and oversaw the talks and strategy. I instructed Benjie to ask what Schilling had to do with five hundred years of bad blood between Muslims and
... See moreTahl Raz • Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It
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Richard Powers • The Overstory: A Novel
Periódicos y revistas de Estados Unidos que nunca se habían interesado antes en Guatemala, América Central o incluso América Latina, gracias a las hábiles gestiones y relaciones de Bernays, empezaron a enviar corresponsales a Guatemala. Eran alojados en el Hotel Panamerican, cuyo bar se convertiría poco menos que en un centro periodístico
... See moreMario Vargas Llosa • Tiempos recios (Spanish Edition)
But Soviet support for Jewish culture was part of a larger plan to brainwash and coerce national minorities into submitting to the Soviet regime—and for Jews, it came at a very specific price.