Word: apocalypticism
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My dubious optimism is not unique. No one actually seemed that worried. And why not? It’s hard to contemplate uncertain, distant apocalyptic scenarios when it’s so nice outside. Climate change may have some unfortunate long-term consequences, but then again, as John Maynard Keynes...
The forms varied, of course. There was the strain of Islamic Wahhabism incubated in Saudi Arabia, exported to Afghanistan and wreaking havoc in Iraq. There was Shi'ite theocracy, centered in Tehran, made more terrifying by the apocalyptic worldview of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. In the West, the dominant form of Christianity...
That's quite a change from four years ago, when Oleg and Vladimir were teaching literature and social sciences at the Yekaterinburg State University, writing little-seen dramas and running an amateur theater they founded in the mid-1990s. But in 2002, a staff member of the British Council, an...
The Levee’s Gonna Break Good blues-rock song, maybe a little too close to Katrina though to capture the placelessness, timelessness and apocalyptic menace that made “High Water” the classic of this type.
But if changes aren't made soon in U.S. policy to reverse Iraq's deteriorating situation, the study group warns, the consequences could be apocalyptic: Iraq's government will collapse, likely sparking a "humanitarian catastrophe." Unfriendly neighbors such as Syria and Iran could intervene. The Sunni-Shi'a war in...