Reposted by Jordan Brown
I've been thinking a lot lately about both the value and the limits of historical analogies, esp. analogies to 1930s-40s Germany, to make sense of the present. This review by Sam Adler-Bell does a nice job of navigating this challenge. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/01/b...
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What the Third Reich Can Teach Us About America Today (Gift Article)
In “53 Days,” the historian Timothy W. Ryback shows how the Nazis used democratic means to destroy German democracy.