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Jews don’t do this, they know who they are, especially when confronted with a challenge to their identity. I once took a walk through Times Square and when tempted to feel lost in the crowd, a fellow with his pals shouted at me, “Hey rabbi! doing some sight-seeing?” “I’m not a rabbi

Marxism, a body of doctrine developed by Karl Marx and, to a lesser extent, by Friedrich Engels in the mid-19th century. It originally consisted of three related ideas: a philosophical anthropology, a theory of history, and an economic and political program.There is also Marxism as it has been understood and practiced by the …

National Socialism (German: Nationalsozialismus), more commonly known as Nazism (/ ˈ n ɑː t s i. ɪ z əm, ˈ n æ t-/), is the ideology and practices associated with the Nazi Party – officially the National Socialist German Workers’ Party (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei or NSDAP) – in Nazi Germany, and of other far-right groups with similar …

The political views of Adolf Hitler have presented historians and biographers with some difficulty. His writings and methods were often adapted to need and circumstance, although there were some steady themes, including anti-semitism, anti-communism, anti-parliamentarianism, German Lebensraum (“living space”), belief in the superiority of an …

After years of repression under Communist rule, the Orthodox Church is back at the heart of Russian politics.

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Dan Drezner disagrees with Chris Hayes about whether Econ 101 is a form of right wing indoctrination, saying that his own first micro class waxed rhapsodic about the joys of technocratic intervention, and that he didn’t discover the public choice critique of government until grad college. Now public choice is an unabashedly ideological …

Communism: Political and economic doctrine that aims to replace capitalism with public ownership of the means of production.