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Aldous Huxley's timeless, sharp and utopistic novel Brave New World depicts the future of the world. The novel that starts in AF 632, meaning approximately 500 years from now on, was written in 1932. The novel is still highly actual despite the 79 years that have passed, the time elapsed perhaps even makes it more intriguing. The direction of science has been seen, and Huxley's novel could have been written today.
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As Andrew Wheatcroft brilliantly shows in “The Enemy at the Gate,” the skirmishes and the pitched battles that raged for centuries between Habsburgs and Ottomans, and their numerous vassals on both sides, represented not so much a “clash of civilizations” as a collision of empires. For all the pious sloganeering that accompanied it, the struggle was only incidentally one between Islam and Christendom.
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Lakoff blames “neoliberals” and their “Old Enlightenment” mentality for the Democratic Party’s weakness. They think they can win elections by citing facts and offering programs that serve voters’ interests. When they lose, they conclude that they need to move farther to the right, where the voters are.
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