The Post-Partisan Emporium

The day I understood the 'good German' Underprivileged children sit on the sidewalk in the Warsaw ghetto United States Holocaust Memorial Museum   Filipe Rafaeli The greatest mystery of World War II has been solved.   The enigma lasted more than eight decades. Underprivileged children sit on the sidewalk in the Warsaw ghetto. Credit:  United States Holocaust Memorial Museum The most important event in recent human history, which shaped the world as it is today, was the Second World War. It is a topic covered, to this day, in a huge number of books, documentaries, plays and movies. Each writer, director and screenwriter tells a piece of the story. Each one with their own viewpoint and approach. I personally have already contributed to this culture when I wrote and directed a  short film  based on that time. I told the story of a child in love with airplanes who meets an aviator. In the movie, I explained a little about the mood in Brazil about to enter the w...

On the Subtlety of Monsters We have to Talk about Nazism. How Our Times Do Indeed Echo an Earlier Totalitarian Era Dr Naomi Wolf My first post in this three-part series, about how the evil that surrounds us has manifested, was about the elite global technocrat class and their distance from the people whose lives they may crush; I noted too their lack of belief in, or loyalty to, the nation-state. Added to this toxic mix, I argued, is the certainty of this class of people that they know best about your life. I made the case in that essay that surrounding us now was a metaphysical, seemingly a Satanic, level of evil. I am seeking to explain in this series of essays, how otherwise nice people — and indeed Western people, who grew up with post-Enlightenment norms about human rights and the rule of law — can be doing evil now, with whole hearts. I am asking how they can be suppressing the respiration of children intentionally; how they can be consigning friends and colleagues to eat in the ...