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January 22, 2025

‘The Death of Expertise’ Explores How Ignorance Became a Virtue

Michiko Kakutani The New York Times

This book, now published in an updated second edition, and this review, from eight years ago, are stark reminders of a major factor behind both of Donald Trump's presidential victories.

May 31, 2023

Have Any of Karl Marx’s Critics Today Actually Read Him?

Ben Burgis Jacobin

The Right never seems to stop talking about “Marxism” and its wily tricks. But for all their denunciations, conservative pundits really just keep proving they don’t even know the basics of Karl Marx’s thought.

September 16, 2020

Nearly Two-Thirds of US Young Adults Unaware 6m Jews Killed in the Holocaust

Harriet Sherwood The Guardian

According to survey of adults 18-39, 23% said they believed the Holocaust was a myth, had been exaggerated or they weren’t sure

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