Eric D. Weitz is Distinguished Professor of History at The City College of New York. His book, Weimar Germany: Promise and Tragedy (2007), was named an “Editor’s Choice” in the New York Times. His current book project is “A World Divided: Nations and Human Rights from the Age of Revolution to the Present.”
Eric D. Weitz
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Against Despair
Despair is everywhere, and for good reason. Huge numbers of refugees are fleeing warfare and violence, while unceasing terrorist attacks are feeding the right-wing populist surge all across Europe and North America. The world has gone awry, and no viable solution has emerged. Human rights, the great optimistic ideology of the 1990s, seems to be […]
