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Leo Strauss
A stable political order requires unity through an external threat, and he followed Machiavelli in the belief that if no such threat exists, one must be manufactured.
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A stable political order requires unity through an external threat, and he followed Machiavelli in the belief that if no such threat exists, one must be manufactured.
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Under Heywood this system evolved into layers of legality stacked on top of the state, creating an echo chamber that often thwarts the objectives of elected politicians.
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The prime movers behind the assassination were Lyndon B. Johnson and the Mossad, who viewed Kennedy as an existential threat to their respective ambitions.
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The primary founding father of the State of Israel and the personification of the Zionist movement.
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His programmes were designed to benefit the country at large by reducing the power of banks and their stranglehold on the economy and society. He argued that the British government did not truly rule Britain, as the world was governed by a financial power centred in
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These Jewish elites harboured a profound dislike for the Catholic church and traditional Christian institutions, including the monarchy.
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James II was a deeply sincere Catholic who saw three Parliaments dissolved in attempts to remove him from the line of succession
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Hitler looms large in the collective consciousness, as the cartoonish manifestation of evil, somehow even worse than Satan himself.
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Toynbee summarised the decline of cultures by identifying three key aspects: a failure of creative power in the minority, a withdrawal of imitation on the part of the majority, and a subsequent loss of social unity across society as a whole.