Why The Empire Never Sleeps: The Indispensable Nation Folly, Part 2

The rise of the murderous Nazi and Stalinist totalitarian regimes during the 1930s and the resulting conflagration of World War II is held to be, correctly, the defining event of the 20th century. But that truism only begs the real question. To wit, were these nightmarish scourges always latent just below the surface of global civilization—waiting to erupt whenever good people […]