The hysteria about a superior race, the insistence that all would be well if one insidious group was purged—those doctrines had been entirely defeated.
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Joan Silber,
New Yorker,
30 Nov. 2025
Fundamental philosophical and religious doctrines emerged in China, India, and the Middle East, along with Greece.
There’s a common, but untrue, narrative that certain sets of scientific dogmas, like the Earth being stationary and the center of the Universe, could not be challenged.
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