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Holly Case

Associate Professor, Brown University

Holly Case is an associate professor of history at Brown University. Her latest book is The Age of Questions (2018).

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Politics and government

The horror of sameness

What people most fear is not difference, but a world in which nothing and nowhere is unique, in which everyplace is the same

Holly Case

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History

The new authoritarians

Last century’s dictators wanted to reinvent their subjects as ‘new men’. This century’s strongmen just don’t care. Why?

Holly Case

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History

Mad, or bad?

Even in the decade of dissent, Thomas Szasz stood alone when he attacked the idea of madness from the political Right

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