Adolf Hitler

The “racial” distinctions between master and slave may be more familiar to Americans, but they were and are no more real than those between Gentile and Jew.

Over the past century, the United States came to rely ever more on economic coercion—with questionable results.

Access to information only goes so far to explain the curious link between secrets and those who tell them.

How a feisty, suicidal Nobel laureate infuriated both Hitler and Stalin, and stalled cancer research for fifty years along the way.

Hannah Arendt holds firm during the McCarthy era.

What do the two events really have in common?

Even as the United States mobilized to defeat Nazi Germany, anti-democratic forces simmered at home.

The Trumpist wing of the GOP uses history as a bludgeon, without regard to context, logic, or proportionality.

He helped build Jewish American support for Israel. What’s his legacy now?

The U.S. is a diverse nation of immigrants—but it was not intended to be, and its historical biases continue to haunt the present.

A new book by Ruth Ben-Ghiat discusses the past and present challenges posed by authoritarianism, but misses the conditions in which it arises.

How English and Esperanto offer competing visions of a universal language.

She also acted as a muse to artist Man Ray, with whom she briefly led a relationship.

A conversation about whether or not the legacy of liberty can break away from racial exclusion and domination.

In Stanley Milgram's studies of obedience, people believed they were giving shocks to others. But did their compliance say much about the Nazis?

The cosmic delusions of Elon Musk and Wernher von Braun.

A conversation with Corey Robin on the surprisingly weak presidency of Donald Trump.

Exposing the damned lies of three science pioneers.

Tracing the twisting path of a resistance slogan, from the Nazis to the hippies to Trump.

President Trump has alarmed Jewish leaders by appearing to endorse 'racehorse theory' — used by eugenicists and Nazis last century.