ZentrumsextremismusStaatsterrorismusAntisemitismus. Pogrome und LynchjustizBrainwashingGehirnwäscheAnti-semitism. Antisemitism. State Terrorism. Government Terrorism. State/Government Terrorism. Pogroms. Lynching. State/Government-Organized Stalking. Parallel Militias. Freikorps. State/Government-Organized Stalkers: Thugs/Verbrechern. Psychopaths.----------------------------------------------------------------"The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum - even encourage the more critical and dissident views. That gives people the sense that there's free thinking going on, while all the time the presuppositions of the system are being reinforced by the limits put on the range of the debate."

Sunday reading on nybooks.com: The Islamic State’s digital expertise, Knausgaard’s teenage years, the Rothschild taste, Nazi propaganda films, and the life and work of William Butler Yeats.   SPONSORED BY MIT PRESS JOURNALS

Inside the Islamic State Malise Ruthven Far from being an undisciplined orgy of sadism, ISIS terror is a systematically applied policy that follows ideas put forward in jihadist literature.   ADVERTISEMENT   Looking After the Knausgaards Elaine Blair The structural logic of My Struggle, in which minutiae get as much attention as peak experiences, seems to take into account the necessary uncertainty about what, in a life, will signify, or where meaning will accrue.   The Rothschild Taste James Fenton When, after World War II, James de Rothschild offered his Buckinghamshire house to Britain’s National Trust, the consensus among those involved in making the decision to accept or not was that the house itself was hideous.   ADVERTISEMENT   Nazi Propaganda: Out of the Cage Francine Prose Felix Moeller’s excellent documentary Forbidden Films has taken an important step toward opening a discussion about whether Nazi films should continue to be banned.   The Rescue of W.B. Yeats John Banville William Butler Yeats was born 150 years ago this week. Here John Banville considers the second volume of Roy Foster’s biography, “a triumph of scholarship, thought, and empathy.” (2004)   Ian Buruma’s book Theater of Cruelty: Art, Film, and the Shadow of War has won the 2015 PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay, “for a book of essays that exemplifies the dignity and esteem that the essay form imparts to literature.”