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...charge was made public by the Czech magazine Respekt and by the country's Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes, a state-funded historical archive and research body. The magazine and the historical institute published a contemporary police document that names Kundera as the man who had informed police about the whereabouts of Miroslav Dvoracek, a former military pilot who had fled to what was then West Germany in 1949. Dvoracek signed up with a Western intelligence agency and returned undercover in 1950. Kundera, who had not spoken to the press for decades, broke that silence this week...
...again from 2004 to 2005. The iPod isn’t the only digital media player walking the streets, nor was it the first, but no one has been able to match its ubiquity.But as Apple’s control of the music player industry got more and more totalitarian, our musical taste got more and more democratic. Nirvana took indie mainstream in the 90s, and once the Internet made it cheap for smaller labels and amateur acts to get their music to consumers, it was a sonic free-for-all. MP3 players, MySpace, and Facebook all made it easier...
...left, or rather, "the monsters that the new laboratories of what we in Europe call Leftism and what Americans call liberalism are giving birth to." In its better days, says Levy, the left stood against evil and injustice and all the worst aspects of fascist and totalitarian systems. Now, amid a surge in anti-American, anti-Semitic and antiliberal sentiments, the left appears "sometimes more right-wing than the right wing itself." It's quite a damning statement, but one that is undercut by Levy's reliance on insular and obscure historical examples that clearly resonate...
...Literature in 1970. The effusive stream of eulogies that poured in from across the world and the political spectrum might lead us to think that Solzhenitsyn ranks with George Orwell as one of the century’s literary saints—a valiant crusader against thuggish, inhuman totalitarianism. But Solzhenitsyn’s legacy needs to be put in perspective. Despite his much-vaunted heroism, he failed in many ways to measure up to the standards of either a great writer or a great man.A quick glance into the biographies behind the marbled busts of the literary pantheon...
...Newman's views had on young German seminarians in the wake of the Nazi regime. "For us at that time, Newman's teaching on conscience became an important foundation for theological personalism, which was drawing us all in its sway," Ratzinger said. "We had experienced the claim of a totalitarian party, which understood itself as the fulfillment of history and which negated the conscience of the individual. One of its leaders had said, 'I have no conscience. My conscience is Adolf Hitler.' The appalling devastation of humanity that followed was before our eyes." Benedict is unlikely to wade into...