Sleepless Again: Or What the World of Yesterday Says About Trump’s Attack on Venezuela and the World of Today

Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair

“[…] our universe had become accustomed to inhumanity, to lawlessness, and brutality as never in centuries before.”

– Stefan Zweig, The World of Yesterday

Things don’t happen randomly. The shocking news of Donald Trump’s attack on Venezuela broke on the 101stanniversary of Benito Mussolini’s announcement to the Italian parliament accepting full responsibility for blackshirt violence and declaring himself dictator of Italy. That gesture—greeted by applause...