Word: totalitarianisms
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...Committee, with Sharon O. Doku ’05 and Alexander Bevilacqua ’07—who is also a Crimson editor—taking the lead. A panel of three distinguished Harvard professors explored the correlation between the modernist literary style and the contemporaneous rise of totalitarian governments...
After all the evidence had been laid out, the verdict, though unspoken, was clear: artists and writers whose work bolstered fascist ideals undeniably bear some responsibility for the consequences of totalitarian rule—but those who turned a blind eye may have been equally guilty. As long as speculation continues, however, authors and readers must continually reassess the relationship between the political mind and the artistic imagination...
...Gulag” in Elkins’ mind appears to mean any camp system where detainees are thrust into a system of forced labor. This usage of “gulag” divorces the term from its uniquely Soviet context, where the police state’s totalitarian power was inexorably linked to that government’s policy of detention and murder...
...Iraqi election of a 275-member National Assembly was neither a bloodbath nor a farce: It was widely participated in and is about as legitimate an election as one can expect in a country that was, until recently, a brutal totalitarian dictatorship. The turnout, which was expected by many pessimists to come in under 30 percent, was ultimately comparable to the turnout in our most recent election. That so many of these recently suppressed citizens flocked to the polls with such enthusiasm is a powerful reminder of the value of the elective franchise...
...additional American casualties, we should not despair. We can, and I believe will, prevail in Iraq but only if we fortify ourselves and realize that next week might very likely be the most destabilized time seen since the end of major combat operations. Changing a country from a totalitarian dictatorship to a democracy is a radical step, and the first election will be the most difficult. Over 1,300 Americans have given their lives in Iraq; over the coming weeks we will be given the opportunity to make their sacrifice meaningful...