What Joe Biden Can Learn from Barack Obama’s Middle East Mistakes
The more Obama tilted toward the Palestinians, the further he pushed Palestinian politics away from compromise.
November 10, 2020
The German-Jewish Émigré Philosopher Who Saved Nietzsche from the Nazis
Walter Kaufmann, who nonetheless chose Judaism.
By the 1930s, the thought of Friedrich Nietzsche had been effectively coopted by the German far-right, largely through the mediation of his sister (who belonged to a proto-Nazi group) and his younger cousins (outright Nazis), who were responsible for inserting racist and anti-Semitic ideas into his posthumously published work. While Nietzsche was a critic of both Judeo-Christian morality and modern liberalism, he was hardly what Hitler’s admirers made him out to be. Hugh Drochon gives credit for the rejection of this view of Nietzsche to the scholar Walter Kaufmann:
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How China Views the Abraham Accords
A catch-22.
The Islamic State’s Way of War Comes to Europe
Maximum offense, maximum outrage.
The German-Jewish Émigré Philosopher Who Saved Nietzsche from the Nazis
Walter Kaufmann, who nonetheless chose Judaism.
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