was originally said to be used to describe Soviet sympathizers in Western countries (although the true roots of the term, while likely Russian, seem even more elusive than that; seehere for example).
— but because the meaning of the term “Universalist” has changed over the years. For instance, I consider myself a humanist Universalist. I am not Christian — I’m not even a theist — and I don’t believe in Heaven, and yet I am still a Universalist. More on this later. James...
Who was McCarthy and what was McCarthyism?相关知识点: 试题来源: 解析 —— Joseph R. McCarthy was U.S. Senator. He started his campaign by saying on Feb. 9, 1950 that he had the names of over 200 Communists in the State Department. His campaign of accusation and anti-Communist ...
McCarthy was voted out of office in 1955, dying in disgrace two years later. His legacy includes the phraseMcCarthyism, used ever since to describe the practice of defaming political opponents without evidence. The anti-communist hysteria he exemplified has since been regarded as one of the dar...
What the hell is everybody talking about? Artificial intelligence is the hottest technology of our time.But what is it?It sounds like a stupid question, but it’s one that’s never been more urgent. Here’s the short answer: AI is a catchall term for a set of technologies that make ...
when both fascists and communists liked to describe their political enemies as vermin, parasites, and blood infections, as well as insects, weeds, dirt, and animals. The term has been revived and reanimated, in an American presidential campaign, with Donald Trump’sdescription of his opponentsas...
or moral reality. One famous example of an allegorical work is Arthur Miller’sThe Crucible, in which the playwright uses a literal story about the seventeenth-century Salem witch trials to represent the abuses of McCarthyism, when the U.S. government was punishing people accused of being Com...
I describe some of my impressions in the video, but overall the experience was worthwhile, because I finally gained that missing piece that explains how these gurus can go on year-after-year, day-after-day, tweet-after-tweet proclaiming “carbs make you fat” against the whole body of scien...
TOVE: In ‘After Liberal Hegemony’ you describe ‘a “multiplex world” in which elements of the liberal order survive, but are subsumed in a complex of multiple, crosscutting international orders’. Does the “multiplex world” you envisage promise more justice and equality? Or will emerging ...
Forestry activity in New Zealand is governed by the Forests Act 1949, and although outdated, there has been no official national forestry policy statement providing clarity on what role the nation-state plays in afforestation or long term management of exotic plantations (The Forests Act applies ...