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Supposedly superior models in Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan energized throngs and produced modern arms far more than did a Grapes of Wrath America.
FORBES: In Which Victor Davis Hanson Conclusively Demonstrates His Cluelessness About Russia, the Reset, and Eastern Europe
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Mr Klarman argues that the framers would not even recognise America's modern government, with its mighty administrative branch and imperial executive.
ECONOMIST: Lexington
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The psychopathic national socialism of Nazi Germany, communism of Stalinist Soviet rule and fascism of imperial Japan (whose oppressive bureaucratic machinery has survived well into the modern era) surely bear Weber out.
ECONOMIST: Face value
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In pre-modern China, emperors demonstrated their dominance by re-creating rival territories within their own: Sprawling imperial parks, which featured flora and fauna assembled from remote lands, buttressed rulers' authority by showing their ability to both create and possess an elaborate facsimile of the known universe.
WSJ: In Chinese Buildings, a Copycat Craze
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His congested street and sinister, motley swarm which includes parodies of Leopold's retinue, brutally racist caricatures and even a Congo mask that may allude to his reign's imperial ambitions shatter one of the period's most cherished pictorial schemas by transforming the modern city into a maelstrom of disorder, alienation and hypocrisy.
WSJ: A Macabre Kingdom of Masks | James Ensor | Christ's Entry Into Brussels in 1889 | By Mary Tompkins Lewis