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  • L-R: Ernst Nolte, Fritz Stern, Richard Pipes, Peter Gay, and Zbigniew Brzezinski.
    L-R: Ernst Nolte, Fritz Stern, Richard Pipes, Peter Gay, and Zbigniew Brzezinski.
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    The Generation That Shaped Our Understanding of the 20th Century Is Gone

    The scholars, historians, and political advisers who shaped the West’s understanding of Nazi Germany, the Soviet Union, and the Islamist Middle East, make way now for—what?

    byWalter Laqueur
  • Opponents of deposed Egyptian President Muhammad Morsi hold portraits of Egyptian army chief General Abdel as they demonstrate at a Ittihadiya main street in Cairo, late on July 26, 2013.(Fayez Nureldine/AFP/Getty Images)
    Opponents of deposed Egyptian President Muhammad Morsi hold portraits of Egyptian army chief General Abdel as they demonstrate at a Ittihadiya main street in Cairo, late on July 26, 2013.(Fayez Nureldine/AFP/Getty Images)
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    What’s Wrong With Egypt’s Liberals? For Starters, They’re Not Liberals.

    With Egypt’s army clearing protesters by force, scholar Samuel Tadros explains why his country’s modernizers support military rule

    byLee Smith
  • Professor Emeritus Bernard Lewis checking the Near Eastern Dept. bulletin board covered with pictures of Saddam Hussein at Princeton, 1990.(Marianne Barcellona/Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images)
    Professor Emeritus Bernard Lewis checking the Near Eastern Dept. bulletin board covered with pictures of Saddam Hussein at Princeton, 1990.(Marianne Barcellona/Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images)
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    Bernard Lewis’ Stubborn Hope

    In Notes on a Century, the historian is still optimistic about a ‘great civilization’ in the Muslim world

    byDavid P. Goldman
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