Mathias Profile picture
Vanity of vanities, all is vanity. Working on a PhD in history at Temple University. Study Central and Eastern Europe with an emphasis on Czechoslovakia
Feb 13, 2024 4 tweets 1 min read
Arno Mayer taking apart the concept of totalitarianism
Image
Image
Really like his point that characterizing fascism as a "revolution of nihilism" focused only on "intellectual, cultural, and psychological aspects" actually does grave harm to our ability to accurately analyze it
Jan 16, 2023 4 tweets 2 min read
Saw something interesting today - a telehealth startup company for opioid addiction. People can sign up online, if they pass a qualifying questionnaire, and get medical counseling and a Suboxone prescription Though I'll admit I'm leery in general of telehealth. I wonder how effective something like this could actually be. And it's a Wharton project, which increases my doubts. But if it can actually help people with opioid addiction then it's all for the best forbes.com/sites/igorbosi…
Nov 25, 2022 4 tweets 3 min read
Alternative future where Italy becomes the world's electronics and computer manufacturing power. Olivetti becomes the Italian Samsung
Nov 18, 2022 4 tweets 4 min read
The long crisis of the 1970s starter pack ImageImageImageImage The labor side of the crisis, as seen in the US ImageImageImageImage
May 27, 2020 31 tweets 12 min read
78 years ago today these two men, Jozef Gabčík and Jan Kubiš, assassinated the Nazi leader Reinhard Heydrich in Prague. Their story is one of the most daring, tragic, and most consequential covert operations of WWII Reinhard Heydrich by the spring of 1942 was one of the most powerful Nazi leaders. He was one of the main architects of the implementation of the Holocaust, having chaired the Wannsee Conference in January 1942. He was also head of the Nazi intelligence and police services
Apr 28, 2019 10 tweets 2 min read
Fascism is haunting my life, my country, my world:

1) Today a group of white supremacists demonstrated at Politics and Prose in DC, a bookstore where the last time I was there was for a talk from an historian about his book on the Nazi concentration camps 2) Today a white supremacist attacked a synagogue in San Diego, a city I was in four months ago for a wedding
3) Two days ago I heard Geert Wilders and Marine Le Pe in Prague ranting about African and Muslim birthrates and the globalists