#historical-perspectives

#historical-perspectives

Stellan Skarsgard described Ingmar Bergman as manipulative and noted his past Nazi sympathies, stating, 'He was a Nazi during the war and the only person I know who cried when Hitler died.' Skarsgard pointed out that Bergman had a strange outlook on people, believing that some were unworthy, which he felt influenced Bergman’s interactions with others.

In psychology, anyone who gets involved in or tries to talk in an analytic, careful way about religion is immediately branded a meathead; a mystic; an intuitive, touchy-feely sort of moron.” - Robert Hogan (1979)

The green paint lining the cell's lower walls on Alcatraz Island evokes feelings of spiritual death, reminiscent of the desperate yearning to escape its oppressive atmosphere.

The course engages students with a well-known yet often misunderstood text, enhancing their understanding of American history through interpretations of The Declaration of Independence.

"Tax collectors in Ancient China and Ancient Rome routinely enriched themselves by gaming the system. This systemic abuse has made tax collectors a target of societal hatred throughout history."

I'm not sure that we necessarily want to celebrate the people. I think that we want to have a certain respect for the office... But by celebrating all of them, I do think it causes us to think of the president as somehow other, when in reality they are a citizen just like everyone else.

In 2025, social care and funding are crucial, showcasing how historical ideas like Wages for Housework may finally be acknowledged in contemporary discussions.

Dogs are so numerous in New York, indeed, that they have already become a nuisance," the journalist Charles Dawson Shanly wrote in The Atlantic in 1872. He was annoyed by "all the barking ... and there is a good deal of it." Other New Yorkers feared that the dogs roaming the streets were "deleterious to health..." Anxieties escalated to the point that "weakminded people began to look upon Ponto's kennel in the back yard as a very Pandora's box of maladies too numerous and appalling to be contemplated without terror.