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Breaking the silence: Liza Long’s Journey from Stigma to Advocacy

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Breaking the Silence: Liza Long’s Journey from Stigma to Advocacy On the morning of December 14, 2012, 20-year-old Adam Lanza shot and killed twenty children and six adult staff members at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, before taking his own life. Later that day, investigators found Adam Lanza’s first victim, his mother Nancy […]

Enabling Evil: How the Nazi Regime Made Atrocities More Palatable

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One of the shocking realizations about the Holocaust and other campaigns of genocide around the world is that these atrocities were perpetrated by seemingly ordinary individuals rather than monsters. In his book “Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland,” Christopher Browning (1992) explores how average middle-aged German police officers became […]