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Recent Examples of barbarism
Similar analyses, whether from Simone Weil or Aimé Césaire, ought to have discouraged a relaxed conscience among the victors of the Second World War and opened up a broader inquiry into the barbarism inherent in political and economic modernity.
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Victor J. Blue, Harpers Magazine, 23 Nov. 2025
That sort of attitude commits you to barbarism: human life has no value.
—Rafael Perez, Oc Register, 12 Nov. 2025
The storied choice between socialism and barbarism was made exquisitely clear a good many years ago in the United States, and both major parties chose barbarism.
—Literary Hub, 7 Nov. 2025
The horror and the barbarism here is hard to even comprehend.
—Jordan King, MSNBC Newsweek, 19 Sep. 2025
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Victor J. Blue, Harpers Magazine, 23 Nov. 2025
That sort of attitude commits you to barbarism: human life has no value.
—Rafael Perez, Oc Register, 12 Nov. 2025
The storied choice between socialism and barbarism was made exquisitely clear a good many years ago in the United States, and both major parties chose barbarism.
—Literary Hub, 7 Nov. 2025
The horror and the barbarism here is hard to even comprehend.
—Jordan King, MSNBC Newsweek, 19 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for barbarism
Noun
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Despite such official philistinism, Proust had already left an enduring mark on Irish letters and would remain a source of literary inspiration for the nation’s writers into the twenty-first century.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
2 Feb. 2026
Noun
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The correlation between illiteracy and incarceration has been known for a long time.—
David Owen,
New Yorker,
22 Dec. 2025
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Hirsch believes that the consequences of illiteracy are also reflected within the prison system.—
Nia Bowers,
USA Today,
13 Nov. 2025
Noun
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That is why the spirit of the most racist president in the last 125 years must be remembered so the hate and ignorance can never be repeated.—
Gary Franks,
Hartford Courant,
20 Feb. 2026
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Mehdi Tafti, a neurophysiologist and a geneticist, said that the unsolved mystery of short sleepers reveals our ignorance about how sleep works.—
Shayla Love,
New Yorker,
18 Feb. 2026
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“Barbarism.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/barbarism. Accessed 2 Mar. 2026.
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