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The American abolitionist Charles Sumner cited Dante on the damnation of those who never fought for a cause; Teddy Roosevelt used the same passages to try to push the United States into the First World War.
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Claudia Roth Pierpont, New Yorker, 24 Nov. 2025
The Enlightenment faith in reason, science, and free speech, already weakened by the First World War, had been devastated by an unprecedented bureaucracy of mass death, sustained by technology, systematic deceit, widespread gullibility, and eager acquiescence.
—Victor J. Blue, Harpers Magazine, 23 Nov. 2025
Jaurès was a moderate socialist leader assassinated in 1914 for his opposition to the impending First World War.
—Literary Hub, 19 Nov. 2025
South Shields were a progressive club who were in the Second Division in the first season after the First World War.
—Michael Walker, New York Times, 10 Nov. 2025
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Claudia Roth Pierpont, New Yorker, 24 Nov. 2025
The Enlightenment faith in reason, science, and free speech, already weakened by the First World War, had been devastated by an unprecedented bureaucracy of mass death, sustained by technology, systematic deceit, widespread gullibility, and eager acquiescence.
—Victor J. Blue, Harpers Magazine, 23 Nov. 2025
Jaurès was a moderate socialist leader assassinated in 1914 for his opposition to the impending First World War.
—Literary Hub, 19 Nov. 2025
South Shields were a progressive club who were in the Second Division in the first season after the First World War.
—Michael Walker, New York Times, 10 Nov. 2025
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