In 1940, with fascism marching across Europe, the philosopher Walter Benjamin formulated one of modern political thought’s most urgent warnings: that history “flashes up at a moment of danger” — not as a neutral record of the past, but as a living force that can be seized, weaponised, and turned against the very values it claims to protect. Benjamin did not live to see his warning heeded. More than eighty years after “never again” was inscribed into Europe’s founding promise, that moment of danger has returned.
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