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How literally do you mean that? Like, mob killings of anyone suspected of being part of the old regime, French Revolution style, or something closer to the religious fearmongering of the actual burnings?

No, academic language as a whole (not merely the marxist stuff) is purposefully made complex. My pet theory is that it's because of publish-or-perish. Most papers are never cited, many are never read by very many people, so if you have to publish papers but you know that they will most likely...

Great stuff, but I feel that if the camera were turned around we'd see a lot of rolled-eyes.

Wasn't there some leftist move a year or two ago to stop teaching any history that was "sad"? That could screw up some stuff too.

It used to be common in media for anyone who helped the Nazis in any way to either be villains or deeply remorseful. It never shows up in media today because people would not understand the sentiment. Exactly. And the more the term "nazi" or the comparison "this is just like the nazis" or...

Maybe sooner. I watched "Inside Man" from 2006 last night. It was like watching something from a foreign country. A banker with a guilty conscience for having helped the Nazis dispose of stolen wealth, plus anti-Muslim racism. A movie like that could not be made today, no one would take it...

Most people aren't automatically skeptical of anyone who says that they have all the answers. Hell, they're actively looking for someone to tell them the answers to all their problems. That kind of leader has "an answer" to sell, and usually sells it quite well. Fear and anger are some of the...

He's iffy on predicting the future, but even then his observations are usually pretty on point. I don't think anyone here is arguing that his points are wrong when dealing with the present, but there are so many variables in the future that it makes it unpredictable. If we went to war with...