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A philosopher went viral for tweeting about ‘polite dinners’ with Nazis. Here’s what he really thinks.

“I have had polite dinners with former members of the Waffen SS who served on the Eastern Front,” the philosopher Jason Stanley wrote on Twitter on Monday. It wasn’t quite the statement you’d expect from the child of two Holocaust survivors. But for Stanley, a Yale professor of philosophy and expert on fascism, the experience he had […]