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Currently Atlas is researching a piece on the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago for the New York Times Magazine and has just completed a story about Italian author and Holocaust survivor Primo Levi...
Afghan-resistance supporters said nearly a thousand volunteers will march 10 miles through Cambridge and Arlington this Sunday to raise money for the victims of what the protest organizers consider "a form of a Holocaust"--the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan...
...political turmoils of this century to omit the Chinese Communist revolution, which is not only the major event in the lives of one-third of the earth's inhabitants but also the first such revolution among the world's nonwhite peoples? And how is it possible to omit the Holocaust, which not only led to the state of Israel and thus to the modern Middle East, which not only changed every Jew's conception of his identity and his place in the world, but which virtually demands a re-evaluation of the nature and destiny of mankind itself? By contrast...
...repatriation of recent immigrants from North Africa and the virtual imprisonment of AIDS victims in special hospitals. But none of those positions has drawn as much opposition as one he took last week. Appearing on a radio panel show, Le Pen was asked about Nazi extermination chambers in the Holocaust. "The gas chambers," he replied, "are a detail in the history of World...
Zealotry, in fact, produces a kind of hyperrationality of technique. The trains carrying innocents to the Holocaust ran remorselessly on time. That is fanaticism's special gift, its special horror: its ability to routinize, to rationalize, to bureaucratize murderous irrationality...