How the Recent Sabotage of an Iranian Nuclear Facility Relates to Negotiations with the U.S.
A disturbing analogy from 1938.
April 22, 2021
Art collectors, millionaires, and victims.
By the 1870s, a handful of Jewish families had emerged as some of Paris’s wealthiest, and amassed splendid art collections. Many members of these families later lost their lives in the Holocaust. Reviewing two recent books about these Jews—one a history, one a work of epistolary fiction—Julian Barnes describes how their material and cultural success could not protect them from anti-Semitism:
A disturbing analogy from 1938.
The terrorist group seeks to use democratic mechanisms to enhance its power, but it will not disarm.
And these may redound to Palestinians as well.
Art collectors, millionaires, and victims.
Decentralization may bring back an old model.
By the 1870s, a handful of Jewish families had emerged as some of Paris’s wealthiest, and amassed splendid art collections. Many members of these families later lost their lives in the Holocaust. Reviewing two recent books about these Jews—one a history, one a work of epistolary fiction—Julian Barnes describes how their material and cultural success could not protect them from anti-Semitism:
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