historians and researchers

Israeli historian Yuval Noah Harari lecturing at conference in Beijing, China on July 6, 2017. (VCG/VCG via Getty Images)

Historian Yuval Noah Harari self-censors Russian translation of his latest book

Harari, who is a vocal champion of gay rights and free expression, made symbolic changes so “ideas in the book reach the Russian readers.”

By Cnaan Liphshiz July 26, 2019 8:06 am

Yuval Noah Harari worries that LGBT acceptance will lead to backlash

“Consider the situation of Europe’s Jews,” the historian wrote, noting that the Holocaust followed European Jewry’s age of emancipation.

June 28, 2019 10:10 am

Hitler Was a Secret Cocaine & Opiate Addict

Did you know that Adolf Hitler was on a drug cocktail of cocaine and opioids throughout World War II? Well, he was—and it’s the subject of Norman Ohler’s new book, Blitzed: Drugs in the Third Reich. It’s always been a mystery as to why Hitler’s unrelenting, and often times, crazed manic optimism never seemed to dissipate […]

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