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When Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a German Pastor, Theorized How Stupidity Enabled the Rise of the Nazis (1942)

When Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a German Pastor, Theorized How Stupidity Enabled the Rise of the Nazis (1942)

Two days after Adolf Hitler became Chancellor of Germany, the Lutheran pastor Dietrich Bonhoeffer took to the airwaves. Before his radio broadcast was cut off, he warned his countrymen that their führer could well be a verführer, or misleader. Open Culture, openculture.com

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James Talarico in his censored CBS interview: "This is the party that ran against cancel culture and now they’re trying to control what we watch, what we say, what we read. And this is the most dangerous kind of cancel culture."

The censorship of the interview just proves his point. Watch the interview in full here:

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David Lynch Made a Disturbing Web Sitcom Called “Rabbits”: It’s Now Used by Psychologists to Induce a Sense of Existential Crisis in Research Subjects

David Lynch Made a Disturbing Web Sitcom Called “Rabbits”: It’s Now Used by Psychologists to Induce a Sense of Existential Crisis in Research Subjects

David Lynch has stayed productive in recent years — putting out an album and reviving Twin Peaks, to name just two projects — but more than a decade has gone by since his last feature film. Open Culture, openculture.com

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Early Japanese Animations: The Origins of Anime (1917 to 1931)

Early Japanese Animations: The Origins of Anime (1917 to 1931)

Japanese animation, AKA anime, might be filled with large-eyed maidens, way cool robots, and large-eyed, way cool maiden/robot hybrids, but it often shows a level of daring, complexity and creativity not typically found in American mainstream animation. Open Culture, openculture.com

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"It's dissidents that will soon replace immigrants in the detention facilities that are being built at the cost of billions around the country."
--Ty Cobb, former Special Counsel to Donald Trump

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The Untold Story of Bauhaus Women: The Avant-Garde Artists Who Helped Shape Modernism

The Untold Story of Bauhaus Women: The Avant-Garde Artists Who Helped Shape Modernism

World War II. Take the Bauhaus Dessau building, which, though completed exactly a century ago, looks like a concrete transmission from the future that never arrived, or one that may indeed still be on the way. Open Culture, openculture.com

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Hear Moby Dick Read in Its Entirety by Benedict Cumberbatch, Tilda Swinton, John Waters, Stephen Fry & More

Hear Moby Dick Read in Its Entirety by Benedict Cumberbatch, Tilda Swinton, John Waters, Stephen Fry & More

Image of Moby Dick by David Austen. In 2013, Plymouth University kicked off Moby Dick The Big Read, promising a full audiobook of Herman Melville’s influential novel, with famous (and not so famous) voices taking on a chapter each. Open Culture, openculture.com

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Cook Up Aleister Crowley’s Rice Recipe: Perfect for Eating with Curry

Cook Up Aleister Crowley’s Rice Recipe: Perfect for Eating with Curry

Before visiting a Gnostic Mass at one of Aleister Crowley’s Ordo Templi Orientis chapters in the UK, Dangerous Minds’ Thomas McGrath was warned by a friend in no uncertain all caps, “DO NOT EAT THE CAKE OF LIGHT.” I’ll let you find out for yourself why the excess caution against this Crowley confabulated piece of anti-Catholic sacramental bread. Open Culture, openculture.com

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Watch All of Vivaldi’s Four Seasons Performed on Original Baroque Instruments

Watch All of Vivaldi’s Four Seasons Performed on Original Baroque Instruments

Antonio Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons reigns as one of the world’s most recognizable early 18th-century pieces, thanks to its frequent appearances in films and television commercials. Upon its debut in 1725, The Four Seasons stunned listeners by telling a story without the help of a human voice. Open Culture, openculture.com

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132 Years of Global Warming Visualized in 26 Dramatically Animated Seconds

132 Years of Global Warming Visualized in 26 Dramatically Animated Seconds

Courtesy of NASA comes a visualization showing how global temperatures have changed since 1880. According to NASA's web site, this 'color-coded map shows a progression of changing global surface temperatures from 1884 to 2012. Dark blue indicates areas cooler than average. Open Culture, openculture.com

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Rare Video: Vince Guaraldi’s First Televised Performance of “Linus and Lucy” (1964)

https://www.openculture.com/2026/02/rare-video-vince-guaraldis-first-televised-performance-of-linus-and-lucy-1964.html

George Washington would think little of Donald Trump and JD Vance's small-minded worldview.

“The bosom of America is open to receive not only the Opulent and respectable Stranger, but the oppressed and persecuted of all Nations And Religions..."
― George Washington

Stream 4,000+ Public Domain Movies on WikiFlix: Silent Classics, Academy Award-Winners, Hitchcock Films & More

https://www.openculture.com/2026/01/stream-4000-public-domain-movies-on-wikiflix.html

The Map of Chemistry: New Animation Summarizes the Entire Field of Chemistry in 12 Minutes

https://www.openculture.com/2017/05/the-map-of-chemistry-new-animation-summarizes-the-entire-field-of-chemistry-in-12-minutes.html